nail-cutter
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "C. Sigourney & H. C. Porter, […] offer for sale Twenty-five Cases of Ibbotsons’ and Sandersons’ justly esteemed CAST STEEL, a considerable part of which is of suitable draft, and tempered expressly for axes, and some few cases are of a superior quality, highly Carbonized, and calculated for Turning Tools, Nail-Cutters, Cold Chissels, Granite Hammers, and other purposes requiring great hardness, and tenacity."
- "Before repatriation was halted earlier this year, Lao Teng had given up hope for a life free from a threat of persecution in Laos. In an act of desperation, he stabbed himself in the stomach with a four-inch nail-cutter and jammed in a fountain pen. “I would rather die here than go back,” he said."
- "He called the former Ontario cabinet minister’s prescription for the city’s problems, “a bit like cutting your lawn with a nail-cutter”—ineffective and inconsequential."