Buttoner

Plus threatening to kill someone or their loved ones if they spill the beans is usually a pretty effective lip-buttoner! ❋ Mac (2006)

Gracie -- she was a little thing then, and, bein 'the youngest, a little sassy and sp'iled, mebbe -- had been on a trip to the city, and she'd brought her ma a present of a shoe-buttoner with a handle a full foot long. ❋ Various (N/A)

Marjory's feelings had been soothed by a pair of tan-colored kids, three-buttoned, stitched on the backs, accompanied by a glove-buttoner and a hug from John. ❋ Various (N/A)

There rolled out a heterogeneous collection of things: a white muslin garment which proved to be a nightgown, with long sleeves and high collar; a half-dozen hair curlers – I knew those; Edith had been seen, in midnight emergencies, with her hair twisted around just such instruments of torture – a shoe buttoner; a railroad map, and one new and unworn black kid glove. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Farquhar and general buttoner-up-the-back to the entire feminine contingent of the party. ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)

Kitty had a little pocket-book, a silver shoe-buttoner, a blank-book, a pretty silk pincushion, and a bangle like Marjorie's. ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)

Old Urique keeps anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 in his house all the time in a little safe that you could open with a shoe buttoner. ❋ Various (1887)

Pencil and penknife, scent-bottle, glove-buttoner, and, best of all, a tiny mirror, in which he viewed his still tearful countenance with undisguised satisfaction. ❋ Anna Fuller (1884)

There's nothing like a boot-buttoner to pick locks. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

The man looks nice in a buttoner, but who wouldn't have their suit game tight with $111 million? ❋ Unknown (2009)

a glove-buttoner, a penknife, and a set of ivory jackstraws. ❋ John Kendrick Bangs (1892)

"She's never owned a pair of scissors, or a pencil, or a shoe-buttoner since she's been here. ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)