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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The clippings of various metals, produced in several mechanical operations.
  2. n. The remainder of a plate of metal after the planchets or circular blanks have been cut out for the purpose of coinage; scrap.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Metal scraps or clippings; especially the remains of fillets from which coin blanks have been cut.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The clippings of metals made in various mechanical operations.
  2. n. The slips or plates of metal out of which circular blanks have been cut for the purpose of coinage.

Etymologies

  1. From French cisailles, plural, scissels, from cisailler ("to clip with shears"), from cisailles ("scissors"), from Latin caesaculum, from Latin caesus, from caedere ("to cut, hew"). (Wiktionary)

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