Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for cutting paper in piles or in sheets, or for trimming the edges of books, pamphlets, etc.; a paper-clipping machine. See cut in next column.
- noun A flat thin blade of ivory, bone, hard wood, tortoise-shell, vulcanized rubber, or the like, used to cut open the leaves of books and other folded papers, and also for folding paper.
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Examples
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In a 1975 photo exhibited alongside a door fitted with paper-cutter blades, a masked Maciunas peers out from behind the door, which bears a hilarious sign: BEWARE VERY SHARP BLADES!
Making Art Out of Living Kristin M. Jones 2011
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Collecting the colorful empty boxes from neighbors and fellow members of the Tucson Handweavers and Spinners Guild, Biller-Belinky uses a paper-cutter — she formerly used a shredder — to divide them into long strips, which she then crafts into baskets that take from a few hours to a few months to complete.
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Collecting the colorful empty boxes from neighbors and fellow members of the Tucson Handweavers and Spinners Guild, Biller-Belinky uses a paper-cutter — she formerly used a shredder — to divide them into long strips, which she then crafts into baskets that take from a few hours to a few months to complete.
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I go through each boy's pile of pictures and crop the photos for maximum emphasis using my paper-cutter.
Coping with the Christmas Pictures Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur 2007
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I have a small paper-cutter and corner-rounder that I purchased at a scrapbooking party several years ago.
Coping with the Christmas Pictures Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur 2007
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It may not be OGREABLE to them (pardon the horrible pleasantry, but as I am writing in the solitude of my chamber, I am grinding my teeth — yelling, roaring, and cursing — brandishing my scissors and paper-cutter, and as it were, have become an ogre).
Roundabout Papers 2006
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And King has a great blog, too: up now are musings on San Francisco in the 1920s--the setting for the latest novel--and various interesting writing-related matters, including a desperate struggle with a paper-cutter to make the fortunes for Mary Russell fortune cookies for the book party next week....
Archive 2005-06-01 Jenny Davidson 2005
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And King has a great blog, too: up now are musings on San Francisco in the 1920s--the setting for the latest novel--and various interesting writing-related matters, including a desperate struggle with a paper-cutter to make the fortunes for Mary Russell fortune cookies for the book party next week....
Holmesiana Jenny Davidson 2005
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She went into her room quite calmly and took up a steel paper-cutter of dagger design — a knife with a handle of bronze and a point of great sharpness.
The Titan 2004
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It is as flat and elastic as an ivory paper-cutter, and the lower mandible, differently from every other bird, is an inch and a half longer than the upper.
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