First recorded in 1820–30
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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
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
The younger man was balancing the paper-cutter across his finger.
From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde
On the top of these lay a little volume of Emerson’s essays, with a paper-cutter marking the page.
From Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel by Louis Couperus
The president's careless glance conveyed just such a tinge of critical surprise as the occasion called for: he toyed with a slender tortoise-shell paper-cutter.
From The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
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
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