Shears: alternatives and connections

A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a han…

A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to b…

The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.

An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes.

A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by…

An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.

An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery.

A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.

A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.

One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.

An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level.

To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.

That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the st…

The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which c…

An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.

The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.

A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances…

An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the fraenum.