Meaning of nail-cutter | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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