scissor

scissor
/siz"euhr/, v.t.
1. to cut or clip out with scissors.
2. to eliminate or eradicate from a text; expunge: testimony scissored from the record.
v.i.
3. to move one's body or legs like the blades of scissors: a gymnast scissoring over the bar.
n.
4. scissors.
[1605-15; v. use of sing. of SCISSORS]

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