Meaning

Attributive form of scissors..

Definitions by Sense

1. Attributive form of scissors.
2. (rare) One blade on a pair of scissors.
3. (India) Scissors.
4. (noun adjunct) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.
5. (transitive) To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
6. (transitive) To excise or expunge something from a text.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.

Example Sentences

I had clipped out the photo, feeling pathetic about the act from the moment I slipped my thumb into the scissor hole.

The records of the Cutlers’ Company of London (1624) refer to scissor-making in the city, although the quality of English-made scissors did not match that of continental scissors for another 100 years. A few English firms of scissor-makers, notably those of Beach, Macklin and Neesham, established a small but notable industry at Salisbury, Wilts, from the mid-17th century until the early 20th.

The doctor came over and peeled off the makeshift bandage, cleaned what he could and looked at it. / “Well, I know what I have to do.” He nodded at me and picked up a scissor-type tool. / “Oh, ho, ho! Don’t you do that; don’t do it; don’t you be cutting that thing off. You stitch it up. I need that finger to chord a guitar!”

He put his two fingers in the scissor holes. He pulled a stray wisp of hair from the thick braid that reached her waist. The small scissors sheared right through it.

1829, uncredited author, “Letters from London,” No. VIII, The Edinburgh Literary Journal, Volume I, Number 19, 21 March, 1829, p. 267, [The poem] “All for Love” […] was originally intended for the Keepsake—the Editor of which Annual proposed to have it scissored down into genteel dimensions, which the Laureate refused to do […]

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Tucked between the pages were Sunday features, together with scissored snippings from gossip columns.

[…] Millroy scissored open his pants leg and bandaged his shin.

Word Forms

• scissors
• scissoring
• scissored

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