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• paper cutter
  paper cutter

  noun

  any device for cutting or trimming paper, typically a weighted, powered, or spring-hinged blade mounted on or over a ruled board or table on which many sheets of paper may be aligned for cutting at one time.
• paper-cutter
  paper-cutter

  noun

  a machine for cutting paper, usually a blade mounted over a table on which paper can be aligned

paper cutter

American  

noun

1. any device for cutting or trimming paper, typically a weighted, powered, or spring-hinged blade mounted on or over a ruled board or table on which many sheets of paper may be aligned for cutting at one time.

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paper-cutter British  

noun

1. a machine for cutting paper, usually a blade mounted over a table on which paper can be aligned

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Other Word Forms

• paper-cutting
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of paper cutter

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

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Defying increasingly popular mass-production techniques, second-generation paper cutter Yuridia Torres Alfaro, 49, still makes her own stencils at her family’s workshop in Xochimilco, on the rural southern edge of Mexico City.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

“If I can’t buy that new paper cutter that costs $200,000, how are you going to do that?”

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2022

Wildes headed to a paper cutter at the other end of Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts in St. Paul and began slicing his picture into 1-inch strips.

From Washington Times ● May 12, 2018

Reston’s Molly O’Boyle is particularly fond of the sound of a tabletop paper cutter doing its job.

From Washington Post

A man in a down jacket is using the paper cutter near the door, trimming a stack of pale blue cards.

From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead

They had not yet built any new Jerusalem, and the sword in their hand sometimes seemed hardly more than a paper-cutter.

From Time Magazine Archive

No; I can't rejoice over it, though, of course I wish them joy; I wired to them this morning and I'm sending them a very handsome paper-cutter of dear father's.

From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

I gave that paper-cutter to Sir Herbert to get it mended——" "Oho!

From In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells

There was a pause, and Mr. King turned off to play with the paper-cutter again.

From Ben Pepper by Margaret Sidney

"I'm not surprised at that," said Barclay slowly, fingering a paper-cutter on the desk before him.

From The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl