Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of nippers with sharp edges or blades, for cutting wire.
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Examples
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THE LOWDOWN Maintaining its reputation as an innovator in the category, Leatherman debuts removable wire-cutter blades (additional inserts sold separately) and its strongest pliers yet with the 300.
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THE LOWDOWN Maintaining its reputation as an innovator in the category, Leatherman debuts removable wire-cutter blades (additional inserts sold separately) and its strongest pliers yet with the 300.
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It stood out for one simple but powerful reason: Of all the winners, it alone included a built-in wire-cutter that sliced the dough more cleanly than a knife.
WSJ Test Kitchen: Pasta Makers Laura Moser 2011
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THE LOWDOWN Maintaining its reputation as an innovator in the category, Leatherman debuts removable wire-cutter blades (additional inserts sold separately) and its strongest pliers yet with the 300.
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But my tool set for working on the car is a 384 piece box set and not a bag of multi-tools where parts of the screw driver are missing, the plier turns into a sloppy wire-cutter and what not!
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Since they were expecting a coroner to examine him for cause of death, why risk unexplained abrasions when a small wire-cutter would have done the job?
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I love how diverse it's become, but there is a certain avenue that erks me, and this posting obviosuly, blatantly hit that nerve with a razor sharp wire-cutter.
Urban Alienation: Cultural Carnage and Alleycats BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Remember, he had no wire-cutter; nothing but his bare hands.
Greenmantle 2005
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Extruders (hand-operated or fully automatic): fed with wet clay and extruded continuously under great pressure through a die (mouth piece producing a uniform cross-section) and cut with a wire-cutter into components of required lengths.
Chapter 4 1991
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The flash suppressor on the end of the barrel had three prongs that served as an adequate wire-cutter for the baling wire that bound the boxes C rations came in: you slip the prongs around the taut wire and give the rifle a quick twist; the wire gives way with a satisfying snap.
1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984
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