First recorded in 1820–30
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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
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 Couperus, Louis
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 Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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 Wells, Carolyn
"I'm not surprised at that," said Barclay slowly, fingering a paper-cutter on the desk before him.
From The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel by Carryl, Guy Wetmore
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