First recorded in 1820–30
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“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
“It must have been OK. We still have the paper cutter, and it still works,” Berner said.
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
"Here you are," Gibbs said, and handed the other a paper-wrapped parcel which when opened proved to contain a long sharp paper-cutter.
From In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells
The merchant makes obeisance and proffers you a paper-cutter or a box of candied ginger.
From East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Frederic Courtland Penfield
He did not need me before Monday, but he told me to come back that day at half-past seven and to bring a bone paper-cutter with me.
From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson
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
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