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Scissors

A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors.

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Clipper 76% connected

One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.

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Shears 76% connected

A cutting instrument.

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Snuffers 76% connected

An instrument for cropping and holding the snuff of a candle.

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Blade 70% connected

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

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Averruncator noun · 78% connection

An instrument for pruning trees, consisting of two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on the end of a long rod.

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Base adjective · 78% connection

Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base,…

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Blady adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of blades.

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Buckle noun · 78% connection

A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as par…

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Central adjective · 78% connection

Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center…

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Clamp noun · 78% connection

An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.

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Clip verb · 78% connection

To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.

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Collapse verb · 78% connection

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (…

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Concertina noun · 78% connection

A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside,…

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Condenser noun · 78% connection

An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a rec…

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Confine verb · 78% connection

to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trai…

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Constrain verb · 78% connection

to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trai…

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Costotome noun · 78% connection

An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections.

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Epicycle noun · 78% connection

A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the defer…

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Folkland noun · 78% connection

Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his disc…

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Forfex noun · 78% connection

A pair of shears.

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Gun noun · 78% connection

A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpo…

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Hold verb · 78% connection

to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trai…

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