Answer: A bread slicer

 

Instead of chopping off heads, this simple machine was solely used for chopping bread into uniform slices. The handle on the left raises the blade, while the wooden part allows the rest of the loaf to rest without anyone’s hands getting in the way.

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  1. The hand clippers were a torture device. They pulled more hair than they cut. Remember my dad getting them out and a chair when I was very young. I remembered my previous encounter and scurried under the bed. Wrong move. The bed moved and I was physically placed in the chair to endure another hair pulling.

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