WordNet
n. an edge tool used in cutting wire
Wikipedia
A wire cutter is a military installation used to protect personnel in open vehicles against taut-wire traps. It was first used late in World War II and mainly installed as a field modification. There are no standard models, but wire cutters usually consisted of a piece of iron installed vertically on the front bumper coming up between two and three feet above the windshield of the vehicle when raised.
These wire cutters offer no protection against tripwires, or IED triggering.
The first land vehicle wire cutter to be demonstrated was fitted to the Killen-Strait tractor, during a demonstration in 1915. This used a pre-existing design of torpedo net cutter, intended for use on submarines. Despite the tactical importance of removing barbed wire barriers during World War I, this type of cutter was not attempted in the field. Heavy tanks were used simply to crush the obstacles.
Usage examples of "wire cutter".
He gropes for the wire cutter with his free hand and begins to cut himself loose from the snarl.
He put his hand down into the toolbox and it came out holding a little wire cutter that still had its ninety-nine-cent price sticker on it.
The jaws of the wire cutter just barely fit over the metal tubing of the antenna.
Smith was busily employed with a knife, a specially designed commando knife which, among other advanced features, had a built-in wire cutter.
He put his other hand on the wire, so that it would not fall against something else, and closed the wire cutter.
But we found peg holes in the floor of the tunnel and snippets of steel wire at both spots - like the leftover stuff when you are cutting lengths with a wire cutter.
In the field, it made a tolerable can opener or barbed-wire cutter.
The hand holding the wire cutter turned white under tremendous pressure.
Rani, a former cat burglar with a talent for breaking and entering, efficiently sliced away at the metal links with a diamond-edged wire cutter while Nina, a Polish bodybuilder with tight black braids, provided cover with continuous fire from her M4 carbine.