scissor : Idioms & Phrases

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Elbow scissors

  • (Surg.), scissors bent in the blade or shank for convenience in cutting. Knight.
Webster 1913

Grafting scissors

  • a surgeon's scissors, used in rhinoplastic operations, etc.
Webster 1913

pair of scissors

  • noun an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades
    scissors.
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Probe, ∨ Probe-pointed, scissors

  • (Surg.), scissors used to open wounds, the blade of which, to be thrust into the orifice, has a button at the end.
Webster 1913

scissor grip

  • noun a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze
    scissors; scissors grip; scissor hold; scissor grip.
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scissor hold

  • noun a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze
    scissors; scissors grip; scissor hold; scissor grip.
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scissor-tailed

  • adjective satellite (of birds) having a deeply forked tail
    • scissor-tailed birds
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scissors grip

  • noun a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze
    scissors; scissors grip; scissor hold; scissor grip.
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scissors hold

  • noun a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze
    scissors; scissors grip; scissor hold; scissor grip.
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scissors kick

  • noun a kick used in the sidestroke; legs are brought together in a scissoring motion
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scissors-tailed

Scis"sors-tailed` adjective
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.
Webster 1913