nypsax
Swedish
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Etymology
[edit]nypa + sax. Probably because its shape is similar to the scissors popular in old time, when scissors were made of one single piece metal without the pin.
Noun
[edit]nypsax c
- (glassblowing) a tool used for forming hot glass by e.g. pinching it. When wet, the tool is used in the process of separating the blown glass object from the glassblowing pipe
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | nypsax | nypsax |
| definite | nypsaxen | nypsaxens | |
| plural | indefinite | nypsaxar | nypsaxars |
| definite | nypsaxarna | nypsaxarnas |