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cut-over, a. and n.
[See cut v. 58 and cut ppl. a. 11.]
A. adj. Cleared of timber by cutting. orig. U.S.
1899Westm. Gaz. 6 Jan. 10/2 At least 90 per cent. of the cut-over lands [on the Pacific coast] are of absolutely no value for agricultural purposes. 1911H. Quick Yellowstone N. xii. 338 The solitary guest which is the only thing that brings the haunch to the spit in the Minnesota cut-over forest. 1946Nature 13 July 71/2 Experiments carried out in certain marked strips of cut-over forest to ascertain the results of allowing the areas to lie fallow for a varying period of years.
B. n.
1. Fencing. An offensive disengage executed over the opponent's blade.
1897Encycl. Sport I. 389/1 To elude quarte made with the hand very low, riposte with a cut-over thus. 1969T. Parker Twisting Lane 111 Going forward he made the first attack: a fast lunge and cut-over in Quarte.
2. An area on which the timber has been cut. U.S. rare.
1922H. Titus Timber vi. 60 If we had known we could have gone north..into the hardwood cutover and made a go of it. |