paper-cutting
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a word derived from
paper cutter.
paper cutternounany 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.
Example Sentences
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Swap out this year’s jigsaw puzzle in favor of something new: a DIY paper-cutting craft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
In April of 2013, during an elevator ride, Kohl, who is fluent in German, was asked by a theatre friend whether she knew how to produce scherenshnitte, a Germanic form of paper-cutting art.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 12, 2014
He attached four industrial-size paper-cutting blades to the grungy yellow front door of his Manhattan apartment.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2011
Other paper-cutting suggestions: Print on both sides of a sheet of paper.
From Inc ● Apr. 22, 2010
The children gain a clearer understanding and a keener appreciation of them after they have had the experience of trying to express the shape or form through some medium, such as clay-modeling, paper-cutting, drawing.
From The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children by Elizabeth Erwin Miller Lobingier