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A variety of shears, effectively a heavier duty scissors, used in gardening and agriculture.
Types
- Pruning shears: Small shears similar to household scissors used for pruning small branches from plants. Also known as secateurs in UK English.
- Straight blade: Pruning shears with straight blades, nearly identical to household scissors. Ex: Danbooru post #6087615.
- Anvil pruners: Pruners where it features a single cutting blade that meets up with a widen flat end when cutting.
- Curved blade: Pruning shears with a curved blade.
- Bypass pruners: Pruners where one blade is convex and the other blade is concave, used to better hold branches. Ex: Danbooru post #5969022.
- Parrot-beak pruners: Pruners where both blades are concave to better hold branches as they're cutting.
- Loppers: A larger long-handled two-handed version of pruning shears. Used for cutting branches that pruning shears can't handle. Features the same different blade types as pruning shears. ex: Danbooru post #5038306.
- Hedging shears: Large long-handled two-handed shears featuring long blades for trimming hedges and shrubs. Also known as a manual hedge trimmers, but due to the commonality of motorized hedge trimmers they're frequently branded as hedging shears to better differentiate them. Ex: Danbooru post #1705185.
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