Definition of Cizers

1. (Shakespeare) scissors [n]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cizers

civilnesses
civilogue
civilogues
civils
civision
civism
civisms
civitas
civitates
civvie
civvies
civvy
civvy street
cixutumumab
cizars
cizers (current term)
cl
clabber
clabbered
clabbering
clabbers
clach
clachan
clachans
clachs
clack
clack valve

Literary usage of Cizers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the British Archaeological Association by British Archaeological Association (1861)
"In the chatelaines already described no mention has been made of the ' cizers'; but forficula of bronze have been discovered of such small dimensions that ..."

2. The Voyages and Explorations of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1616 by Samuel de Champlain (1902)
"... Wedges and cizers,11 and other things necessarie to draw out the said Myne; which they haue promised to doe, and to bring the same the next yeere, ..."

3. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"... and see that all the furniture be at it ; looke if my cizers, the pincers, the pen-knife, the knife to close letters, with the bodkin, the ear-picker, ..."

4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"The said Monsieur Prevert gave the Savages Wedges and cizers, and other things necessarie to draw out the said Myne; which they have promised to doe, ..."

5. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"The said Monsieur Prevert gave the Savages Wedges and cizers, and other things necessarie to draw out the said Myne; which they have promised to doe, ..."

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