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   scissors

   /ˈsɪzəz/

   plural

   • 1. an instrument used for cutting cloth, paper, and other material, consisting of two blades laid one on top of the other and fastened in the middle so as to allow them to be opened and closed by a thumb and finger inserted through rings on the end of their handles.
   • ▪ denoting an action in which two things cross each other or open and close like the blades of a pair of scissors: "as the fish swims the tail lobes open and close in a slight scissor action"
   • ▪ a tactical move in which a player running diagonally takes the ball from a teammate and changes the direction of the attack, or feints to do so: "a dummy scissors from David Thomas deceived the opposition"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French cisoires, from late Latin cisoria, plural of cisorium ‘cutting instrument’, from cis-, variant of caes-, stem of caedere ‘to cut’. The spelling with sc- (16th century) was by association with the Latin stem sciss- ‘cut’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. scissorwise adverb

   Scrabble Points: 10

   • S

     1

   • C

     3

   • I

     1

   • S

     1

   • S

     1

   • O

     1

   • R

     1

   • S

     1

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