Crossword clues for scissor
scissor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scissor \Scis"sor\, v. t.
To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of
scissors.
--Massinger.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "to cut with scissors;" 1961 with reference to leg motions (in the wrestling sense it is attested from 1968); see scissors. Related: Scissored; scissoring.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context rare English) One blade on a pair of scissors. 2 (context noun adjunct English) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as ''scissor kick'', ''scissor hold'' (wrestling), ''scissor jack''. vb. 1 To cut using, or as if using scissors. 2 To excise or expunge something from a text. 3 To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs. 4 To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other. 5 (context skating English) To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.
WordNet
v. cut with or as if with scissors
Wikipedia
The Scissor (pl. scissores) was a type of Roman gladiator. Very little is known about the gladiator besides the name, which means "cutter, cleaver, render" (from scindo).
German historian and experimental archeologist Marcus Junkelmann has propagated an idea, based on an unlabeled, unclear image that he decided might be a scissor, that this type of gladiator fought using a weapon consisting of a hardened steel tube that encased the gladiator's entire forearm, with the hand end capped off and a semicircular blade attached to it. A handle inside the tube might have allowed the gladiator to maintain control in the heat of battle. This weapon might have been both deadly and versatile; the gladiator could use his protected arm to block his opponent's blows and quickly counterattack, the shape of the blade being such that even the slightest touch could cause a serious wound.
Usage examples of "scissor".
They were shaped like bladeless scissors, and the Constable unfolded them and carefully pinched them over his bulbous nose.
The Capuchin answered me with a torrent of abuse, so the count ordered a pair of scissors to be brought, that the beards of the filthy rogues might be cut off.
Fortunately, Dum-Dum said he had just the thing for them, a special concoction of his own devising, consisting of an astringent compounded of alum, sharkskin oil, hydrocortisone and a butylated cream to hold the ingredients into a semi-solid mass, guaranteed to either scare hemorrhoids back where they came from or simply dry the whole mess up into something that could be snipped off with a pair of surgical scissors.
They heard the clicking of scissors and the humming of clippers, overlaid with the voices, supposedly, of the trio of men standing frozen behind each of the chairs.
She gently took the persimmon plant away from the scissors, then turned to speak calmly and rationally to Sandy.
Inside the upper shelf, the case held a dozen swabs, files and prodders, plus tweezers large and small, and a very valuable pair of stout scissors for clipping dragon nails.
From the looks of it, his T-shirt had had its sleves forcibly removed without the aid of scissors, his army fatigues had been cut off into ragged shorts, and on his feet he wore a pair of dirty canvas deck shoes with no socks.
Bunty was still giving vent to spasmodic boos and hoos, Judy was whistling stormily, and the General, mulcted of the scissors, was licking his own muddy shoe all over with his dear little red tongue.
Above all, the stringless kites, the warplane nightmare pterodactyls, scissoring the mists, kettle-drumming the winds, flirting and shuttering like ugly fans, like books of horror, in the always-murdered and so always-drying crimson sky.
The Stone Scissors Paper game performed the same sublimatory role for the Media Age with far less ambiguity.
Nigh Sump a woman died of massive puncture wounds to both sides of her neck, as if she had been caught between the blades of huge serrated scissors.
He knew he would not be able to stand it when Teasle came touching the scissors to his head and cutting.
Alf was a jack-of-all-trades, carpenter, tinsmith, blacksmith, electrician, plasterer, scissors grinder, and cobbler.
Before leaving the house, he had been bathed, and annointed with a thick fragrant oil, and with a tiny silver scissors Mrs.
The Capuchin answered me with a torrent of abuse, so the count ordered a pair of scissors to be brought, that the beards of the filthy rogues might be cut off.