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1921-00-00
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Hair clippers
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A manual beard clipper

A hair clipper, often individually called the apparent plurale tantum hair clippers (in a similar way to scissors), is a specialised tool used to cut human hair. Hair clippers work on the same principle as scissors, but are distinct from scissors themselves and razors. Similar but heavier-duty implements are used to shear sheep, but are called handpieces or machine shears.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hair clipper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.