scissor-like

Mr. Strong says that no other machine will give him the scissor-like precision-cut he wants for his Zoysia grass, a cushiony turf common on the golf links.

A Way to Stay a Cut Above the Neighbors: Super Mowers 2010

I do have egg cups, spoons & even a scissor-like egg-top-chopper-offer, but still get a bit of shell in my egg.

Great way to peel boiled eggs | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007

Jake waved his hand in a scissor-like movement that clearly wanted to cut this scene to its end immediately.

The Playboy Boss's Chosen Bride Darcy, Emma 2006

In their flight they frequently twist about with extreme quickness, and dexterously manage with their projecting lower mandible to plough up small fish, which are secured by the upper and shorter half of their scissor-like bills.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

In their flight they frequently twist about with extreme quickness, and dexterously manage with their projecting lower mandible to plough up small fish, which are secured by the upper and shorter half of their scissor-like bills.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Spainy was working those scissor-like back jaws in a valiant effort to remove duckie head from duckie body.

carpe duckie, and abscond with haste 2003

Each cross point had a dowel connection which was tied with string to prevent slipping, but to allow a scissor-like movement.

Chapter 10 1988

He had stopped the pony and was watching the inroads of numberless scissor-like mouths on a stub of corn near the roadside.

The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

They had worked away silently for hours, cutting holes in our mosquito-bars, a Panama hat of Jacks, and even our rubber kit-bags, each ant packing off all it could carry of one thing or the other -- an irregular piece severed by its scissor-like cutters.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

Tito went quietly forward, and opening her wide gape, took the rope in, almost under her ears, between the great scissor-like back teeth, then chewed it for a few seconds.

Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted Ernest Thompson Seton 1903