paper cutter

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a machine or device for cutting or trimming sheets of paper to a required size, often with a long hinged blade

   The print shop used a heavy paper cutter to trim the posters evenly.

2. 2
   noun

   a handheld paper knife used to slit, cut, or crease paper

   He slid the ivory paper cutter under the folded sheet and opened it cleanly.

A compound of paper and cutter, recorded from the eighteenth century. Cutter is the instrument noun from cut + -er. The name first covered hand tools such as paper knives and later also guillotine-style and powered machines for trimming stacks or sheets to size.

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