2. A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth.
[1913 Webster]
{Lewis hole}, a hole wider at the bottom than at the mouth, into which a lewis is fitted. --De Foe. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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