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Scissor   /sˈɪzər/   Listen
Scissor

verb
1.
Cut with or as if with scissors.



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"Scissor" Quotes from Famous Books



... of mechanism—that it carried in each of its sides. It is not legs which make the noise, as is the case with crickets and grasshoppers, but little hard membranes under the wings are scraped together at the creature's will. The sound is not musical, for when it is not a continuous scissor-grinding noise, it is like the cry of a corncrake with a weak throat; but what delight there is in it! and how it expresses that joy in the present and recklessness of the morrow, which the fabulist has in vain contrasted with the virtuous industry of the ant in order to point a moral for mankind!—vainly, ...
— Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine • Edward Harrison Barker


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