Neal Asher

The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.

English Writer

Barry Jenkins

My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.

American Director

Chip Gaines

In my junior high and high school days, I would just pick up a mower and go mow the neighbor's grass and make an extra 30 bucks.

American Entertainer

Understand that 'mower' can refer to both a person who mows and the machine they use.

Machine vs Person

'Mower' can mean different types—some are pushed manually, others you can ride on.

Types of Mowers

'Mower' is often used in a casual context when talking about garden maintenance.

Colloquial Usage

In ornithology, 'mower' is a specific term that may not be known in everyday English.

Specialized Term

The bird called a 'mower' is not widely recognized, unlike common birds like sparrows.

Not Common

Look for context in sentences to discern if 'mower' refers to the machine or bird.

Contextual Clues

 In fact, if you happen to be using a chain saw or a lawn mower, male cicadas will flock to you, thinking that you're one of them. Now, like most things in nature, the cicadas don't arrive without a posse. There are all sort of awesome and gross predators and parasites that come along with the buzzing bugs.

Cicadas: The dormant...

 and why it was important. Dad talked a lot about bad design when we were growing up, you know, "Bad design is just people not thinking, John," he would say whenever a kid would be injured by a rotary lawn mower or, say, a typewriter ribbon would get tangled or an eggbeater would get jammed in the kitchen.

John Hockenberry: We are...

 course of the life of this animal we put a big tongue in here because in fact almost all dinosaurs have two big tongue bones that indicate they did have a loose and free tongue that was used for manipulating plant matter this was a dinosaur that was a this was a fern mower it was dedicated and an eating

Extreme Dinosaurs PIPE...

 so hard and then after I start hollering a sign to stop I realized that he was in the bedroom he'd been asleep so he wasn't knocking on the mower and everybody else is upstairs asleep and it was it housed him after he moved into this house it he started seeing things

Haunted House in...

 have a situation you want to have long grass and have I don't know why you'd want actually fetching grass in this it's a farm area I don't know or maybe you like the wilderness feel in your backyard but otherwise if you don't then a lawn mower or a weed whacker is

Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...

 a sit on lawn mower and she went below one of our apricot trees and there was a swarm of bees that attacked her and she got stung must have been about twenty or twenty-five tomczak watch quite excessive anyway she went inside she got

Safari Live - Day 190 PIPE...

 especially when they're under attack. These signals take two through the air, and through the soil. When plant leaves get damaged, whether by hungry insects or an invading lawn mower, they release plumes of volatile chemicals.

Can plants talk to each...

 need those supplies I see Walt ants cook stoves and so forth so that's why they buy it from us you interested in that they can't host interfere yeah I got a lawn mower I'd sell a pair of them for 90 40 for

Bargaining for Boards PIPE...

 I'm gonna tell a story from the mesozoic today and for that we need a Mesozoic stage that's about 110 million year old dinosaur dubbed the fern mower for its

"Lawn Mower" Dinosaur...

 collection of the arthropod food web and we do this by vacuum sampling so we have a backpack with a lawn mower engine on it and it connects to a big hose and