nail-cutter

See also: nail cutter and nailcutter

English

Noun

nail-cutter (plural nail-cutters)

  1. Alternative form of nail cutter.
    • 1832 May 26, Springfield Republican, volume VIII, number 404, Springfield, Mass.: S[amuel] Bowles, →OCLC, page 3, column 6:
      C. Sigourney & H. C. Porter, […] offer for sale Twenty-five Cases of Ibbotsons’ and Sandersons’ justly esteemed CAST STEEL, a considerable part of which is of suitable draft, and tempered expressly for axes, and some few cases are of a superior quality, highly Carbonized, and calculated for Turning Tools, Nail-Cutters, Cold Chissels, Granite Hammers, and other purposes requiring great hardness, and tenacity.
    • 2007 May 20, Ambika Ahuja, “Hmong refugees from Laos, with nowhere to go, fear being sent back”, in The Bay City Times, volume 134, number 140, Bay City, Mich., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10D, column 6:
      Before repatriation was halted earlier this year, Lao Teng had given up hope for a life free from a threat of persecution in Laos. In an act of desperation, he stabbed himself in the stomach with a four-inch nail-cutter and jammed in a fountain pen. “I would rather die here than go back,” he said.
    • 2010 October 21, Mohammed Adam, “[Clive] Doucet: ‘We may just climb mountain’”, in Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ont.: Postmedia Network, →ISSN, →OCLC, page C6, column 1:
      He called the former Ontario cabinet minister’s prescription for the city’s problems, “a bit like cutting your lawn with a nail-cutter”—ineffective and inconsequential.
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