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nippers

/ ˈnɪpəz /

plural noun

an instrument or tool, such as a pair of pliers, for snipping, pinching, or squeezing

Then, grandpaw, he turns round to the baby again, plumb took up with them four new nippers.

His companion, as if to look at him with a due appreciation of this, stopped swinging the nippers and put them on.

Seeking Nippers, I came upon him haltingly reading my diary aloud to an amused circle of cattlemen, in his quarters aft.

He took a pair of nippers an' ketched holt an' pulled out a big shirtin' needle.

This machine consists essentially of a series of rollers, nippers, and rows of metal teeth.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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