snips

/ snɪps /

plural noun

1. a small pair of shears used for cutting sheet metal Also calledtin snips

Example Sentences

After a long shake of his head and a shrug of his rather high shoulders he snips, goes to the window and opens it.

From Project Gutenberg

To make one complete man out of all this vast collection of snips and snippets of humanity.

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The reason that there is more snips are the same shining very colored rid of no round color.

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They do not hear the men beyond their parapets lying on their stomachs and busily cutting the wires with their snips.

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So th' punchers got to totin' wire-snips, an' when they runs up agin a fence they cuts down half a mile or so.

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