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ˈglass-ˌcutter
1. One whose occupation it is to cut glass (e.g. to sizes for glazing), or to ornament glass-ware by grinding.
1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 156 The London Glass⁓cutters..have their Rules Centesimally divided. 1832G. R. Porter Porcelain & Gl. 309 The grinding of glass, or frosting it..forms a branch of the glass-cutter's art. 1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 140 The glass-cutter works at a frame, in which a thin iron wheel..derives its cutting grittiness from a mixture of sand and water..As the wheel spins the glass is held against its edge and slowly cut into.
2. A tool for cutting glass; a glazier's diamond.
1881Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1692. 751 On examining the glass-cutter it will be noticed that there are notches of different widths in it. 1892Daily News 13 July 7/3 Stealing therein 37 glaziers' diamond glass-cutters.
So glass-cutting vbl. n.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 595 Glass cutting and grinding. |