scissars
English
Noun
scissars (plural scissars)
- Archaic form of scissors.
- a bottlescrew, knife and penknife, needles, pins, thread, silk, worsted, &c. Some plasters and scissars (The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, volume 16)
- 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 20599507, pages 139–140:
- Last night after tea, when you and mama went out of the room, they were whispering and talking together as fast as could be, and he seemed to be begging something of her, and presently he took up her scissars and cut off a long lock of her hair, for it was all tumbled down her back; […]