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Sound Of Shears Crossword Clue

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noun

• a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)

• the act of clipping or snipping

verb

• sever or remove by pinching or snipping

• cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

24%9 Gardener's pruning shears
noun

• small pruning shears with a spring that holds the handles open and a single blade that closes against a flat surface

24%8 Fast sailing ships; swift sleds, horses etc; a hair trimmer; or, garden shears for shrubbery or topiary
noun

• Anything that clips.

• (chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.

• Something that moves swiftly; especially:

• The Asian butterfly Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.

• A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.

• A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.

• Confidence trickster; conman.

• A tool for clipping something.

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