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scissor

[siz-er] / ˈsɪz ər /


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I had just got off the scissor lift and then you said you were supposed to paint the wall, but got too busy.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

Pilcher was working last June when one of these recent recruits was electrocuted while working on high-voltage overhead lights, from a scissor lift, without gloves or other required safety equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

Today she reaches the peak of her canvases by riding a scissor lift, which sits behind her worktable, its metal bars speckled with globs of paint in many different colors.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024

Mr Heron, a newly married former British Army engineer, visited the Co-op on Perth Main Street on 11 October 2019 to service a scissor lift in the storeroom.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2024

The blade then becomes a single-blade scissor and flurries through the room to free us from our restraints.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer