Lawn vs Dethatch - What's the difference?
lawn | dethatch |
An open space between woods.
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
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, title= (lb) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
(uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), Dracula :
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 144:
(in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
(countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
* 1910 , Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie :
To abrade the surface of a lawn or turf in order to remove dead grass.
*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 12, author=Jay Romano, title=Grass, Simplified: Hire Someone, work=New York Times
, passage=The services available vary widely, from basic tasks like mowing and edging walkways and flower beds to more involved work like trimming shrubs and bushes, applying fertilizer and pesticides, and dethatching , which removes layers of dead grass. }}
As a proper noun lawn
is a town in newfoundland and labrador.As a verb dethatch is
to abrade the surface of a lawn or turf in order to remove dead grass.lawn
English
(wikipedia lawn)Etymology 1
Early Modern English "; Old Norse & Old English landNoun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
Derived terms
* lawn mower * lawnedEtymology 2
Apparently from (Laon) , a town in France known for its linen manufacturing.Noun
- The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.
- He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief.
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