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noun
Metal scraps or clippings; especially the remains of fillets from which coin blanks have been cut.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From French cisailles (“scissels”), from cisailler (“to clip with shears”), from cisailles (“scissors”), from Latin caesaculum, from caesus, from caedere (“to cut, hew”).
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