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  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

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Etymology

Origin of paper cutter

First recorded in 1820–30

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Example Sentences

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You too can create your own gift wrapping station with paper rolls housed on a horizontal paper cutter.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2023

“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

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

From In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells

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

I would 340 let the paper-cutter take my place; but I am sorry to say the little wooden seaman did after the manner of seamen, and deserted in the Societies.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

M. de Valles nibbles his paper-cutter, raises his eyebrows, and sighs.

From My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

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