buttoner

Plus threatening to kill someone or their loved ones if they spill the beans is usually a pretty effective lip-buttoner!

Posthuman Blues Mac 2006

Gracie -- she was a little thing then, and, bein 'the youngest, a little sassy and sp'iled, mebbe -- had been on a trip to the city, and she'd brought her ma a present of a shoe-buttoner with a handle a full foot long.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

Marjory's feelings had been soothed by a pair of tan-colored kids, three-buttoned, stitched on the backs, accompanied by a glove-buttoner and a hug from John.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

There rolled out a heterogeneous collection of things: a white muslin garment which proved to be a nightgown, with long sleeves and high collar; a half-dozen hair curlers – I knew those; Edith had been seen, in midnight emergencies, with her hair twisted around just such instruments of torture – a shoe buttoner; a railroad map, and one new and unworn black kid glove.

The Window at the White Cat 1910

Farquhar and general buttoner-up-the-back to the entire feminine contingent of the party.

The Highgrader William MacLeod Raine 1912

Kitty had a little pocket-book, a silver shoe-buttoner, a blank-book, a pretty silk pincushion, and a bangle like Marjorie's.

Marjorie's New Friend Carolyn Wells 1902

Old Urique keeps anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 in his house all the time in a little safe that you could open with a shoe buttoner.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) Various 1887

Old Urique keeps anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 in his house all the time in a little safe that you could open with a shoe buttoner.

Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886

Pencil and penknife, scent-bottle, glove-buttoner, and, best of all, a tiny mirror, in which he viewed his still tearful countenance with undisguised satisfaction.

A Venetian June Anna Fuller 1884

There's nothing like a boot-buttoner to pick locks.

Evening Dress Farce William Dean Howells 1878