clipshear

noun

1. (Scotland)Earwig

   “I looked over the stair-windows, however, and saw the back green, which smells of clipshears and clockers, as of yore.”

   “I also learned from my father how to drown baby mice in a rain barrel, crush a clipshear between my thumbnails, and assist in the skinning of a rabbit.”

   “Those tapestries were like a zoological garden, seething with slaters and clipshears.”