scissors

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A pair of shears of medium or small size. See shears.
• noun Candle-snuffers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun plural A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors.
• noun plural (Zoöl.), [Prov. Eng.] the European goatsucker.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun countable A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed.
• noun countable, rugby An attacking move conducted by two players; the player without the ball runs from one side of the ball carrier, behind the ball carrier, and receives a pass from the ball carrier on the other side.
• noun countable, skating A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
• noun countable, wrestling A scissors hold.
• verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scissor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move
• noun a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze
• noun an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades