scissor vs shave

scissor

verb
  • To cut using, or as if using, scissors. 

  • To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other. 

  • To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other. 

  • To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs. 

  • To excise or expunge something from a text. 

noun
  • One blade on a pair of scissors. 

  • Scissors. 

  • Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack. 

shave

verb
  • To cut anything in this fashion. 

  • To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. 

  • To remove hair from one's face by this means. 

  • To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing. 

  • To cut finely, as with slices of meat. 

  • To reduce in size or weight. 

noun
  • A thin slice; a shaving. 

  • A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a spokeshave. 

  • An instance of shaving. 

  • A narrow miss or escape; a close shave. 

How often have the words scissor and shave occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )