scissel
English
Alternative forms
- sizel
Etymology
From French cisailles (“scissels”), from cisailler (“to clip with shears”), from cisailles (“scissors”), from Latin caesaculum, from caesus, from caedere (“to cut, hew”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪsəl/, /ˈsɪzəl/
Noun
scissel (countable and uncountable, plural scissels)
- Metal scraps or clippings; especially the remains of fillets from which coin blanks have been cut.