Meaning of dzirkles | Babel Free

Definitions

1. shears (large scissors with a spring, for shearing sheep, or for gardening work)
   declension-5, feminine
2. locative plural of dzirkles
   feminine, form-of, locative, plural

Equivalents

Examples

“asināt dzirkles”

to sharpen the shears

“nogriezt zarus ar dzirklēm”

to cut branches with shears

“dzirkles tikai tad izņem, kad jācērp aitas”

(we) takes the shears only when (we) have to shear the sheep

“skolas dārza darbos gandrīz visi iemācījāmies strādāt ar dārznieka lielajām dzirklēm, ar kurām apgriezām skolas dzīvžogus glīti un vienādi”

in the school garden work, almost all of us learned to work with the big garden shears, with which we trimmed the school hedges (so that they were) neat and symmetrical

CEFR level