First recorded in 1820–30
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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
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
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
Before you commence your manuscript, take a quire, and prepare each sheet by splitting it all down the folded side, with a sharp paper-cutter, thus dividing it into half-sheets.
From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie
The use of the paper-cutter that Miss Prall admitted having given into Sir Herbert's keeping gave wide-spread opportunity.
From In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells
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
She had given R. L. S. a paper-cutter by way of farewell token at his starting.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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