ok. thank you for your explication. regards arnold "Hugh Watkins" <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote in message news:5344pfF1ql6v1U1@mid.individual.net... > cutting sheet metal we have a kind of scissors called a "tin snips" > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_snips > > and a tailor calls his biggest scissors shears > > and uses pinking shears to trim edges of the cloth > > http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=%22pinking+shears > Pinking shears are scissors, the blades of which are sawtoothed instead of > straight. Pinking shears leave a zigzag pattern instead of a straight > edge. > > > > Hugh W > > > Arnold O.Kn. wrote: >> Yes you are right. >> We think, The first people with the surname "Knipscheer" were tailers or >> something like that. And in the outside front of their shops they used a >> scissor as sign-board. So (in Dutch) a "Knipschaar" or "Schaar" >> But because they were living in Brabant, people in Brabant has the >> dialect tongue to say "scheer" if they mean "schaar". >> regards, arnold >> >> "Hugh Watkins" <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:52rcl3F1o7siaU1@mid.individual.net... >> >>>I read dutch as danish with spelling mistakes >>>both closely related to platdeutsch >>> >>>from 1600 to 1800 a patronmym means a surname in this context >>> >>> >>>then is it a dialect spelling in Brabant? >>> Knipschaar >>> >>>schaar tongs, scissors >>>http://www.freedict.com/onldict/dut.html >>> >>> >>>shears in english used for cutting wool from sheep >>>and traditionally made in one piece >>>also seen in viking archeology to hang from a womans belt with her keys >>>as a staus symbol of the mistress of the house >>> >>>and small sheer making is a traditional craft in Japan too >>> >>>or later big scissors used by tailors or trimming grass and hedges >>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shears >>>or as a pictionary >>>http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=shears&btnG=Search+Images >>>http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=schaar&btnG=Search >>> >>> >>> >>>knips >>>snap shot, a small glassor bole of potent scnapps, or tongs or pliers >>> >>> >>>see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shears >>> >>> 1. German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of shears >>> and scissors, or a metonymic occupational name for a cutter (of cloth, >>> hair, etc.), from Middle High German schere, Middle Dutch sc(h)erre >>> ‘shears’. >>> 2. Jewish: variant of Scher. >>>German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German schere, >>>Middle Low German schere, Middle Dutch sceere, Yiddish sher ‘scissors’, >>>‘shears’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of scissors or >>>shears, or for a barber, cloth cutter or possibly a sheep shearer. >>> >>>Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN >>>0-19-508137-4 >>> >>>but >>>shear >>>English: nickname for a beautiful or radiant person, or one with fair >>>hair, from Middle English scher, schir ‘bright’, ‘fair’. >>>http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx >>> >>>kleermaker tailor clothier ? >>> >>>=================== >>> >>>Morbidity and Mortality According to Occupation >>>Jacques Bertillion >>>Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Dec., 1892), >>>pp. 559-600 >>>doi:10.2307/2979582 >>> >>>cutler, scissors maker >>> >>> >>>time to go shoppinng in LIDL for cheap fish >>> >>>Hugh W >>> >>> >>>Arnold O.Kn. wrote: >>> >>> >>>>The answers to the question: "What does the name means as word" is >>>>completely wroten on: >>>>http://home.planet.nl/~frede313/20herkomst_naam.htm >>>>My sorry for the fact that it's only in the Dutch language. >>>>arnold >>>> >>>>"Hugh Watkins" <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote in message >>>>news:52ms5qF1o9d6eU2@mid.individual.net... >>>> >>>> >>>>>Arnold O.Kn. wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>The Knipscheer Family Website. >>>>>>The address (url) of this website is: http://home.planet.nl/~frede313 >>>>>>The website contents a lot of pages, including genealogical. >>>>>>Take a look and find your Dutch or German ancestors >>>>>>Regards >>>>>>Arnold >>>>> >>>>>you could call it "the KNIPSCHEER one-name study" if you collect all >>>>>instances of the name including non family members >>>>> >>>>>what does the name means as a word? >>>>> >>>>>Hugh W > > -- > > a wonderful artist in Denmark > http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/ > > Beta blogger > http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks > > old blogger GENEALOGE > http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG