Etimologia e Storia di lawn-mower

"turf, stretch of grass," 1540s, laune "glade, open space in a forest or between woods," from Middle English launde (c. 1300), from Old French lande "heath, moor, barren land; clearing" (12c.), from Gaulish (compare Breton lann "heath"), or from a cognate Germanic word, from Proto-Germanic *landam-, source of English land (n.). The -d perhaps was mistaken for an affix and dropped. Sense of "grassy ground kept mowed" first recorded 1733. Lawn-tennis is from 1884.

All'inizio del 14° secolo, si riferiva a "chi taglia l'erba con una falce," un sostantivo agente derivato dal verbo mow. Il significato meccanico è datato 1852.