scissor-grinder

If I thought that students would appreciate it, I used to blow their minds -- and, hopefully, raise their consciousness -- with accounts of otherwise non-existent singular forms in, for example: knicker-elastic, scissor-grinder, trouser press.

On plural adjectives DC 2010

Before Cree settled down as a weaver, he was knife and scissor-grinder for three counties, and Mysy, his mother, accompanied him wherever he went.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

In the wake of the departing trap flew a solitary beetle, making a noise exactly like a scissor-grinder at work.

We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

One afternoon a scissor-grinder chanced to set his wheel a-going under the Pyncheon Elm, and just in front of the arched window.

The House of the Seven Gables 1851

One afternoon, a scissor-grinder chanced to set his wheel a-going under the Pyncheon-elm, and just in front of the arched window.

The House of the Seven Gables 1851

One afternoon a scissor-grinder chanced to set his wheel a-going under the Pyncheon Elm, and just in front of the arched window.

House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

As he came to the next village, he saw a scissor-grinder with his wheel, working and singing,

Grimm's Fairy Tales Wilhelm Grimm 1822