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  • noun Plural form of trimmer.

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Examples

  • One of the things families often do that does NOT involve whisker trimmers is talk about all the things for which they're thankful.

    Talking Turkey Ulysses 2009

  • One of the things families often do that does NOT involve whisker trimmers is talk about all the things for which they're thankful.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Ulysses 2009

  • Men called trimmers go in there, and by means of implements called slices make the coal run through that opening on to the floor of the stokehold, where it is within reach of the stokers '

    Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad 1890

  • When the Moultons discovered the damage, they said they had no idea who called the trimmers, but suspected their neighbors.

    naplesnews.com Stories 2010

  • When the Moultons discovered the damage, they said they had no idea who called the trimmers, but suspected their neighbors.

    naplesnews.com Stories 2010

  • Tools such as trimmers, mowers and blowers generally use engine technologies long abandoned by carmakers: air cooling, carburetion and, often, two-cycle engines fueled by an oil-gas mix .

    E15 fears: More ethanol in gasoline is bad news for power equipment, critics say Adrian Higgins 2010

  • Tools such as trimmers, mowers and blowers generally use engine technologies long abandoned by carmakers: air cooling, carburetion and, often, two-cycle engines fueled by an oil-gas mix .

    E15 fears: More ethanol in gasoline is bad news for power equipment, critics say Adrian Higgins 2010

  • Tools such as trimmers, mowers and blowers generally use engine technologies long abandoned by carmakers: air cooling, carburetion and, often, two-cycle engines fueled by an oil-gas mix .

    E15 fears: More ethanol in gasoline is bad news for power equipment, critics say Adrian Higgins 2010

  • This glaze is dried in a hot room, then looked over by "trimmers," who scrape it off from such parts as the feet of cups and plates, so that they will not stick to the saggers in firing.

    Makers of Many Things Eva March Tappan 1892

  • The industry has also fueled an itinerant labor force of "trimmers" who make $20 per hour or more snipping the leaves from the more potent dried buds of the plant.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

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