scissel

English

Alternative forms

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)

  1. (archaic) Metal scraps or clippings; especially the remains of fillets from which coin blanks have been cut.

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