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Wire Cutters Crossword Clue

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noun

• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

• the pointed part of barbed wire

• a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove

• one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather

verb

• provide with barbs

36%5 Can be cut with wire cutters
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33%8 Feature of some pliers or wire cutters
noun

• a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front

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