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Snuffers

noun
1.
Scissors for cropping and holding the snuff of a candlewick.





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"Snuffers" Quotes from Famous Books



... my darling, And I, your love, the box. We'd live and sneeze together, Shut out from all the weather, And anti-snuffers snarling, In neckties orthodox; If you were snuff, my darling, And I, your love, ...
— Pipe and Pouch - The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry • Various
... his 'bacco-box, if he had any. I have to remark here, that kerchief-taking is a most common joke in Texas, and I wonder very much at it, as no individual of the male species, in that promised land, will ever apply that commodity to its right use, employing for that purpose the pair of snuffers which natural instinct has supplied him with. At the same time, it must be admitted that no professional man can expect employment, without ...
— Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet • Captain Marryat


Words linked to "Snuffers" :   pair of scissors, plural form, scissors, plural


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