SNIPS

snips, tinsnips

(noun) (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Noun

snips

plural of snip

shears; hand tools used to cut sheet metal and other tough webs

Verb

snips

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of snip

Anagrams

• spins

Source: Wiktionary

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SNIP

Snip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Snipping.] Etym: [D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.]

Definition: To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away. Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. Fuller. The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. De Foe.

Snip, n.

1. A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip. Shak.

2. A small shred; a bit cut off. Wiseman.

3. A share; a snack. [Obs.] L'Estrange

4. A tailor. [Slang] Nares. C. Kingsley.

5. Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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