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Definition of Scissoring
1. scissor [v] - See also: scissor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scissoring
Literary usage of Scissoring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"Those keen incisors were scissoring away—a full leaf at a time ! She had even
filched a five-dollar note out of the pouch of the book ..."
2. The Bookman (1908)
"... and into these envelopes he industriously pops the proceeds of his careful
reading and scissoring of the newspapers. When one of the envelopes reaches a ..."
3. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"... limbs may actually cross over (scissoring). Flexion can be severe enough to
maintain the heels drawn up against the buttocks. The resultant inability to ..."
4. Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton (1867)
"There was not much scissoring in it, — the scissors have never been much esteemed
in the Herald office, — but the little that there was all told upon the ..."
5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural TasteGardening (1855)
"If I were to lay down three comprehensive rules for a new beginner, I would say,
give your grapes plenty of scissoring. While the bleak winds of spring ..."
6. Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton (1867)
"There was not much scissoring in it, — the scissors have never been much esteemed
in the Herald office, — but the little that there was all told upon the ..."
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