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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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tin snips

Part of Speechnoun

Large, heavily-constructed scissors or shears, operated by hand and used for cutting sheets of metal.

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Synonyms

tinner snipstinner's snips

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Related Words

snipsslittershearpair of scissorsscissorsnibblerthinning scissorshacksaw

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