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▪ I. cuttle, n.1|ˈkʌt(ə)l|
Forms: 1 cudele, 5 codull(e, cotul(l, 6–7 cuttell, (7 cudle, cuttel, cuddell, 9 dial. coodle, cuddle), 6– cuttle; also 6 scuttel, 7–8 scuttle.
[OE. cudele, also in OLow-Frankish, c 1100 (Grimm); of unknown derivation. The original form survives in the dialectal cuddle, coodle; cuttle appeared about 1500. Cf. Ger. kuttel-fisch, perh. from English.]
A cephalopod of the genus Sepia or family Sepiidæ, esp. the common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, also called ink-fish from its power of ejecting a black fluid from a bag or sac, so as to darken the water and conceal itself from pursuit. Thence the name is extended to other decapod, and sometimes even to octopod, cephalopods.
c1000Suppl. Alfric's Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 181 Sepia, cudele, uel wasescite. c1490Promp. Parv. 96 (K.H.) Cotul, fisshe [Pynson cotull or codull, fisshe], cepia. 1538Elyot Biblioth., Sepia, a fyshe callyd a Cuttell. 1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. iv. i. 41 The craftie Cuttle lieth sure In the blacke cloude of his thicke vomiture. 1623Whitbourne Newfoundland 94 The Squid, which is something like the Cuddell. 1658Willsford Natures Secrets 135 Cuttles with their many legs swimming on the top of the water..do presage a storm. 1883Jefferies Story of my Heart iii. 58 The ghastly cuttles. 1880W. Cornwall Gloss., Cuddle, coodle, a cuttle-fish.
(β) Now usually called cuttle-fish.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Xibia, a cuttle fish, sepia. 1615Crooke Body of Man 24 So the Cuttle-fish..powreth forth a blacke humor, and in that clowd she escapeth. 1766Smollett Trav. 166 The sepie or cuttle-fish, of which the people in this Country make delicate Ragout. 1873Dawson Earth & Man iv. 69 The highest of the Mollusca, represented in our seas by the cuttle-fishes.
†b. Used allusively in reference to the animal's habit of darkening the water when alarmed. Obs.
1555Ridley Declar. Lord's Supper Wks. (Parker Soc.) 36 They will not cease to go about to play the cuttles, and to cast their colours over them. a1556Cranmer Wks. I. 75 Note well here, reader, how the cuttle cometh in with his dark colours.
2. attrib. and Comb. (of cuttle and cuttle-fish), as cuttle shell, cuttle-bone; cuttle-fish tribe.
1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) III. 429 Of the sepia, or cuttle-fish tribe. 1812J. Smyth Pract. Customs (1821) 80 Cuttle shells or bones, produced by the Sepia or Cuttle-Fish. 1889Pall Mall G. 4 Dec. 2/2 To enter into a dispute..with such a cuttle-fish controversialist. 1891R. Kipling City Dreadf. Nt. 18 Is he trying to run a motion through under cover of a cloud of words, essaying the well-known ‘cuttle-fish trick’ of the West?
▪ II. † cuttle, n.2 Obs.
[app. a. OF. coutel (mod.F. couteau):—L. cultellum knife. Cf. coutel. The OF. form in -el was however obsolete before cuttle appears in Eng.]
A knife. Also fig.
1546Bale Eng. Votaries ii. (1550) 14 b, Dysmembrynge hymselfe with a sharpe cuttle in her presence. 1592Greene 3rd Pt. Conny-catch. 23 One..came vnto a poore Cutler to haue a Cuttle made vnto his owne minde. 1661K. W. Conf. Charact. Pragmatick Pulpit-filler (1860) 83 The blunt and notcht cuttles of their wit.
b. transf. or ? = cutter1 3.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 139 Away you Cut-purse Rascall, you filthy Bung, away..Ile thrust my Knife in your mouldie Chappes, if you play the sawcie Cuttle with me.
c. Comb., as cuttle-bung, a knife used for cutting purses; cuttle-haft, a popular name of the Yellow Flag, Iris Pseudacorus.
1591Greene Disc. Coosnage (1592) 13 In Figging Law, the knife [is called] the Cuttle boung. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 84 He..the fisherman..unsheathed his cuttle-bong, and..dismembered him. 1610Rowlands Martin Mark-all, A Cuttle bung, a knife to cut a purse. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 100/1 Some call..Flag..Sword-point, or Edge-Tool; and others Cuttle-haft.
▪ III. cuttle, n.3 local.
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A layer of cloth when the finished piece is folded.
1541Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 3 The said clothes..shall be folded either in pleights, or cuttelle, as the clothes of all other Countries of this Realme commonly haue beene vsed. 1885Yorkshire Wool-Trade Terms, Cuttle, the layers of cloth in the finished piece. The width of the cuttle varies according to the requirements of the market for which the cloth is intended, but is generally twenty inches.
Hence ˈcuttle v.1, to fold cloth so as to lay it in ‘cuttles’ or pleats.
1883Almondbury & Huddersf. Gloss. 34 Cuttle, to fold cloth in the following manner. First, a small portion is doubled, then another upon it (not round it), and so on until it is all doubled up; finally wrap the end, left first or last, round all. The reasons for adopting this mode are, that the cloth is supposed to keep best; it is easier to unfold for show purposes; it piles best.
▪ IV. † ˈcuttle, v.2 rare.
[? related to cutter v.]
1746H. Walpole Lett. H. Mann 15 Sept., Recollecting how you used to cuttle over a bit of politics with the old Marquis, I set myself to be wondrous civil to Marquis Folco. 1878Cumbrld. Gloss., Cuttle (North), to chat or gossip. |