nail-cutter

plural nail-cutters

1. alternativeAlternative form of nail cutter.

   He called the former Ontario cabinet minister’s prescription for the city’s problems, “a bit like cutting your lawn with a nail-cutter”—ineffective and inconsequential.

   2010 October 21, Mohammed Adam, “[Clive] Doucet: ‘We may just climb mountain’”, in Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ont.: Postmedia Network, →ISSN, →OCLC, page C6, column 1

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   C. Sigourney & H. C. Porter, […] offer for sale Twenty-five Cases of Ibbotsons’ and Sandersons’ justly esteemed CAST STEEL, a considerable part of which is of suitable draft, and tempered expressly for axes, and some few cases are of a superior quality, highly Carbonized, and calculated for Turning Tools, Nail-Cutters, Cold Chissels, Granite Hammers, and other purposes requiring great hardness, and tenacity.

   1832 May 26, Springfield Republican, volume VIII, number 404, Springfield, Mass.: S[amuel] Bowles, →OCLC, page 3, column 6

   Before repatriation was halted earlier this year, Lao Teng had given up hope for a life free from a threat of persecution in Laos. In an act of desperation, he stabbed himself in the stomach with a four-inch nail-cutter and jammed in a fountain pen. “I would rather die here than go back,” he said.

   2007 May 20, Ambika Ahuja, “Hmong refugees from Laos, with nowhere to go, fear being sent back”, in The Bay City Times, volume 134, number 140, Bay City, Mich., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10D, column 6