Boltcutting quiz

[undyingking]

What would you call this?


[Poll #1247845]

Comments

[mr-malk.livejournal.com]

I'd usually refer to them in the plural, and usually as a pair or a set. I can imagine situations where I might say that I need "a bolt-cutter", in the sense that I need a device that will cut a bolt, irrespective of whether it looks like your picture.

I might also refer to them as bolt-croppers, should the fit take me.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Bolt-croppers, now that has a definitely Northern feel to me. I think 'crop' for 'cut' in a general sense died out down here some time ago.

[mr-malk.livejournal.com]

I hadn't actually thought of it as a northern term, but you identifying it as such gives me a warm fuzzy glow in the Yorkshiremost recesses of my heart!