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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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Using a 19th-century guillotine-style paper cutter, Wagner cut thousands of pieces of paper in 10 different sizes, all rectangles in the same proportions that Powers favors.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 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

Another Times photographer, Alan Berner, remembers Mr. Liddell cutting chicken wire for a home project on the photo department’s large paper cutter.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2014

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

From Washington Post

I peek into the bag at my feet: a paper cutter, white card stock, and a tin of forty-eight colored pencils, twelve more than the set I have.

From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord

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

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

From Ben Pepper by Margaret Sidney

The president glanced at the clock and laid the paper-cutter down with a decisive motion.

From The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

At certain seasons of the year it is covered so thickly with quail that "you could not put a paper-cutter between them."

From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson

You know your aunt's paper-cutter was found——" "That proves nothing.

From In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells