cuttingn.
/ˈkʌtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkədɪŋ/ 1.
a. The action of cut v., in various senses.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun]
bita1000
kerfc1000
slittingc1175
carving?c1225
chop1362
cuttinga1398
hacking1398
scissure?a1425
garsingc1440
racing?a1450
incision1474
secting1507
raze1530
chopping1548
scotching1551
hackling1564
slashing1596
carbonadoing1599
kinsing1599
insection1653
secation1656
scission1676
gash1694
inciding1694
haggling1761
cut1808
shear1809
carve1888
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > cutting or stealing purses > [noun]
cutpursing1499
purse-picking1571
purse-taking1598
purse-cutting1623
cutting1700
purse snatching1880
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of batting
blocking1637
quilting1822
defence1825
cutting1827
forward play1828
defensive1832
swiping1833
back-cutting1842
straight play1843
back play1844
sticking1873
leg play1877
off-driving1884
gallery-hitting1888
goose game1899
straight driving1904
stroke-play1905
pad play1906
on-driving1948
stroke-making1956
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. ii. 892 Þey cleueþ so togidres þat vnneþe þey mowe be departed atwynne wiþoute kuttyng oþer keruyng.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 150 It is necessarie a surgian to make hise kuttyngis & hise brennyngis bi lenkþe of þe necke.
1590 E. Webbe Rare & Wonderfull Things (new ed.) 21 There we staide to see the cutting or parting of the Riuer of Nilo..vpon the 25 of August.
1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks 27 Some gests and cutting of Faces, wherein they oblige the Company to imitate them.
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 33 This shuffling and cutting with Atoms.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical vi. 60 Those who live by Cutting of Purses.
1827 in W. Denison Sk. Players (1846) 39 There would be comparatively no cutting to the point or slip.
1856 I. L. Bird Englishwoman in Amer. 41 That extreme of civilisation vulgarly called ‘cutting’ is common.
1884 I. Bligh in James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Ann. i. ii. 5 His cutting and off-driving being alike, masterly.
b. The action of cutting down prices or underselling; also attributive, as cutting line, cutting work. (colloquial.)
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > selling at lower or higher price
overselling1583
undersellinga1687
cutting1851
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > decline in prices > cutting prices
cutting1851
rate-cutting1878
price-cutting1887
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 336/1 There is great competition in the trade, and much of what is called ‘cutting’, or one tradesman underselling another.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 425/1 A man started as a grocer in the same street, in the ‘cutting’ line, and I had to compete with him.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Mar. 2/1 This cutting work—competition gone mad I call it—is really a gigantic conspiracy against labour.
c. The separating of cattle from a herd; cf. to cut out 4 at cut v. Phrasal verbs. Also attributive. U.S. and Australian.
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1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin (Lentzner) I had been furnished with a trained cutting pony, reported to be one of the best in the valley.
1892 K. Lentzner Austral. Word-bk. 19 Cutting, separating cattle from a herd and lassoing them.
d. Cinematography. The action of cut v. 21e. Also in Sound Recording.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > editing > [noun]
editing1913
cutting1921
cross-cut1933
cross-cutting1938
intercutting1953
découpage1963
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > [noun] > cut
cutting1921
quick cut1932
cut1933
cutaway1951
jump cut1953
match cut1961
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > editing of tape
cutting1958
1921 A. C. Lescarboura Cinema Handbk. (1922) 21 Cutting, editing a picture by elimination of useless or unacceptable film.
1936 A. Asquith in C. Brahms Footnotes to Ballet vi. 244 Photographing the same scene from different positions and changing them in the cutting.
1958 Listener 6 Nov. 752/2 The success of the total effect was due to the cutting and assemblage of the recordings under the composer's care.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [noun] > place of intersection
intersection1559
cutting1598
crossing1828
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided
dealinga1300
divisionc1374
partc1392
spacec1392
long divisionc1400
severingc1400
skyvaldc1400
foddinga1425
panelc1450
partition1561
roomstead1600
canton1601
separation1604
share1643
scissurea1667
cutting1726
departmenta1735
segment1762
compartment1793
distribution1829
segregation1859
dept.1869
section1875
tmema1891
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 125 These two straight lines shall come to be cut, in the which cutting shall the Angle of the Bulwarke be.
1726 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. (ed. 2) I. ii. § 40. 327 The Arcs of the cutting contain'd between two Parallels are equal.
3.
a. concrete. A piece cut off; esp. a shred made in preparing or trimming an object for use.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a piece cut off
cutting1382
culponc1400
clipping1461
chop?1463
shearing1536
sharing?1553
chopping1558
snip1558
share1590
snipping1611
offcut1663
snippet1664
kerf1678
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Kings xi. 31 And he seith to Jeroboam, Tak to thee ten kyttyngis.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 449 Codrus..berenge as kyttenges of trees in his necke.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §667 The burning also of the cuttings of Vines, and casting them upon Land, doth much good.
1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 98 550 lbs. Cuttings of Losh Hides, value 3d. per lb.
1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. Mar. 369 Dirty cuttings from the shambles at three ha'-pence a pound.
b. A quantity that may be cut.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > felling trees > quantity felled
ploughbote1398
fall1535
hag1535
succisiona1626
fell1767
cut1807
felling1885
cutting1902
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xxvii. 191 ‘Its a fine country,’ went on Thorpe so everyone could hear, ‘with a great cutting of white pine.’
1957 Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol.: Pt. II (Empire Forestry Assoc.) 55 Cutting, the amount of timber..that can be cut from sawn timber.
4. spec.
a. A small shoot or branch bearing leaf-buds cut off a plant, and used for propagation.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip
planteOE
plantingeOE
quickwoodc1383
graffa1393
sarmenta1398
slivingc1400
springc1400
clavec1420
sleavingc1440
talionc1440
quick1456
quicking1469
graft1483
quickset1484
slip1495
setlingc1503
set1513
pitchset1519
slaving?1523
truncheon1572
stallon1587
crosset1600
marquot1600
sliver1604
secta1616
offset1629
slipping1638
side-slip1651
slift1657
cutting1691
pitcher1707
mallet-shoot1745
root cutting1784
stowing1788
stool1789
pitch1808
heel1822
cutling1834
piping1851
cutback1897
stump plant1953
1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 130 Figs..will be propagated by their Suckers, Cuttings, and Layers.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Fierides The Cuttings being planted in a natural Bed of Earth.
1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 76 The shrubby Calceolarias..are readily propagated by cuttings.
b. A paragraph or short article cut out of a newspaper, etc.
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society > communication > journalism > supply of news or newspapers > [noun] > press-cutting agency > press-cutting
exsection1812
newspaper slip1830
cutting1856
clipping1857
press clipping1881
scissoring1881
press cutting1888
1856 Notes & Queries 2nd Ser. 1 292 I am desirous of mounting a collection of newspaper cuttings.
1866 Athenæum 24 Nov. 687/1 Hardly more comical than the following ‘cutting’ from the Boston Gazette.
5. Irish History. The levying of a tax or impost; tailage.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > [noun]
impositionc1374
taxing1413
levy1427
taxation1447
finance?c1475
taxage1483
levying1496
raisec1500
talliation1531
leviation1538
lay1558
tousting1565
stenting1587
cuttinga1599
imposing1610
assize1642
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 6 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The Tanist hath..certaine cuttings and spendings upon all the inhabitants under the Lord.
1607 J. Davies Let. in Hist. Tracts (1787) 222 Affirming that the Irish cutting was an usurpation and a wrong.
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 167 These Cheeferies..did consist chiefely in cuttings and Cosheries, and other Irish exactions.
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. ii. 131 You heard before that Florence had a cutting..upon Carberry.
6. A figure produced by cutting; a carving, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > a sculpture or carving
graving1382
carvingc1384
similitudea1450
piece1579
insculpturea1616
sculpture1616
draught1646
cut1658
cutting1787
sculpc1845
mushroom stone1957
1787 F. Burney Diary Sept. (1842) III. 446 She gave me a cutting of my dearest Mrs. Delany..exquisitely resembling her fine venerable countenance.
1852 J. L. Motley Let. 13 Sept. in Corr. (1889) I. v. 139 Curious cuttings in wood and alabaster.
7. Mining. (See quots.)
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1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 668/1 Cutting,..a poor quality of ore mixed with that which is better.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 669/1 Cuttings,..the larger and lighter refuse which is detained by the sieve in the hotching tub, or hutch.
8. An open, trench-like excavation through a piece of ground that rises above the level of a canal, railway, or road which has to be taken across it.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > cutting
cutting1836
railway cutting1839
rock cut1841
cut1881
1836 Hull & Selby Railw. Act 6 To construct..arches, cuttings and fences.
1838 F. W. Simms Public Wks. Great Brit. 62 The railway is carried through this cutting.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 23 Some good geological sections may be seen in railway cuttings.
9. With adverbs. Also attributive.
a. cutting away v.
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c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 335 Þis kitting awei is clepid circumcisioun.
b. cutting down. spec. cutting-down line (Shipbuilding): a curved line forming the upper side of the floor-timbers at the middle-line, continued to the stem and stern over the dead-woods, and representing the curve on which the keelson lies; cutting-down, the curve or surface which this line represents.
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1469 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 46 Wythout any dystruccyon or kyttynge down of treis.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Cutting-down line, a curved line used by shipwrights in the delineation of ships.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 113 The cutting-down line is intended to represent, on the Sheer Draught, the limit of the depth of every floor-timber at the middle-line, and also the height of the upper part of the dead-wood afore and abaft.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 124 They are bolted..to the cutting-down of the knee.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 142 They must be deeper in the throat or at the cutting-down.
c. cutting-in:
(a) See to cut in 3 at cut v. Phrasal verbs.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > art of driving horse-drawn vehicle > specific manoeuvre
cutting-in1856
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > driving or operating a motor vehicle > specific manoeuvres
reversing1896
U-turn1915
cutting-in1925
doughnut1951
cut-in1958
U-ey1976
1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry iii After much ‘cutting in’, and shaving of wheels and lashing of horses.
1925 Don'ts for Motorists 55 Cutting in is another evil practice.
1930 Times 26 Mar. 11/3 [He] said one of the most serious offences was ‘cutting in’, and the motorist who was passed in this way would be the only witness against the offending driver.
1960 News Chron. 7 June 1/2 Bad overtaking and cutting-in—normal faults of holiday drivers.
(b) See to cut in 4 at cut v. Phrasal verbs.
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society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > cutting in
cut-in1920
cutting-in1920
1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. ii. 78 The reassured beaux and the eternal cutting in.
1928 Daily Express 14 Dec. 19 The American practice known as ‘cutting-in’..consists..of any man who wishes to dance tapping the shoulder of another man who is already dancing and abducting his partner.
(c) The action of starting an engine by some device which closes the circuit. Also used of the engine itself, and attributive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [adjective] > specific parts
float-feed1902
thermo-siphonic1920
cutting-in1924
downdraught1929
wet1935
choke1959
1924 A. W. Judge Mod. Motor Cars III. 74 When the dynamo speed is low, the spring holds the contacts apart, but as soon as the ‘cutting-in’ speed is attained [etc.].
1928 Motor Manual (ed. 27) 110 A dynamo has what is termed a definite ‘cutting-in’ speed, which means that at, say, 400 revolutions per minute, it begins to generate effective current, which, by the action of a device known as the cut-out, connects the dynamo to the battery and charges it.
d. cutting-out:
(a) See to cut out 10 at cut v. Phrasal verbs. Also attributive, as cutting-out scissors, large scissors for cutting patterns from fabric.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > carrying out specific processes > cutting out
cut and thrust1761
cutting-out1819
the world > space > shape > [noun] > shaping > shaping by or as by cutting > from a piece
cutting-out1819
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > equipment > scissors
buttonhole scissors1831
cutting-out scissors1873
1819 M. Wilmot Let. 21 Dec. (1935) 47 [My] pink dress which you were at the cutting out of.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xxxii. 231 Virginia..superintended the cutting-out department.
1873 Young Englishwoman Mar. 147/2 Cutting-out scissors, small scissors, and button-hole scissors.
1930 Times Educ. Suppl. 24 May 238/4 Well qualified..in Practical Needlework, with Cutting-out.
1936 R. Lehmann Weather in Streets i. ii. 40 Pins in her mouth, the cutting-out scissors in her hand.
(b) = sense 1c.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > droving > cutting-out
cutout1874
cutting-out1874
1874 J. G. McCoy Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade v. 81 Whilst from six to ten cow boys hold the herd together the ranchman with one or two assistants separate such as are suitable. This process is termed ‘cutting out’.
1877 R. E. Strahorn Hand-bk. Wyoming 35 Our artist has given a very fair representation of the ‘cutting out’ scene.
1884 W. Shepherd Prairie Experiences 34 This cutting-out goes on all the day long.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Squatter's Dream ii. 13 He's the best cutting-out horse.
1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 75 I'm running this cutting-out expedition.
1920 C. E. Mulford Johnny Nelson xxv. 255 Selecting from their best cutting-out animals, saddles were hastily changed, [etc.].
e. cutting-up:
(a) The action of to cut up at cut v. Phrasal verbs; spec. boisterous, frolicsome, or silly behaviour. (U.S.)
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun]
legerdemain1532
hocus-pocus1647
sham1683
funning1728
humbugging1752
humming1807
hoaxing1808
larking1813
cutting-up1843
cut-up1843
shenanigan1855
codology1860
greening1863
cod1866
leg-pulling1879
spoof1889
codding1892
spoofery1895
four-flushing1901
kidding1901
shenaniganning1924
kidology1964
1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iv. i. 32 A delicious Mellon..only waits thy Cutting up.
1812 R. Southey Omniana I. xlvii. 83 Before the butcher's phrase ‘cutting up’ was supposed to be synonymous with criticizing.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. liii. 209 Cutting up..consists in craking nuts and jokes—racing one another, and slamming doors—in upsetting chairs, and even kicking up carpets!
1883 J. A. Macon Uncle Gabe Tucker 162 De perlicemen nebber would 'a' let John de Baptis' do any sich cuttin'-up as dat.
(b) Founding. (See quot. 1888.)
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1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 101 Cutting-up, the gashing of the broken edges or faces of a sand mould preparatory to adding fresh sand for mending-up.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
cutting purpose n.
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1892 Dixon's Seed Catal. 30 A great acquisition for cutting purposes.
cutting work n. (see 1b.)
b.
cutting place n.
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1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) 500 At the Kerf, or cutting place near the root.
1684 London Gaz. No. 1949/4 He hath rubbed the Hair in the cutting place behind.
c. esp. in names of tools, etc. used in the process of cutting.
cutting-board n.
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1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1081 It [sc. willow wood]..furnishes shoemakers with their cutting-boards.
cutting-burnisher n.
cutting-compass n.
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Cutting-compass, a compass, one of whose legs is a cutter, to make washers, wads, and circular disks of paper for other uses.
cutting cylinder n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > paper-making equipment > [noun] > for cutting paper
cutting stick1888
cutting cylinder1909
1909 Daily Chron. 11 June 7/5 Each colour is rolled out in long sheets, and passes through separate rollers upon which what is known as a ‘cutting cylinder’ is rotating continuously, one to each colour.
1929 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 166/2 In this process the scratched material is rolled into a continuous sheet, and led..under a revolving ‘cutting cylinder’.
1964 Gloss. Letterpress Rotary Print. Terms (B.S.I.) 23 Cutting cylinder, the cylinder that holds the knives that cut the web into individual lengths or sheets.
cutting-engine n.
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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 495 If both wheels are cut in the cutting-engine by the same cutter.
cutting file n.
cutting-gauge n.
cutting-hook n.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 530 Some good husbands..with a cutting hook (turning the edge vpward) fetch vp the eies budding out beneath.
cutting-knife n.
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1925 F. Walton Linoleum 48 An octagonal cylinder, arranged with a number of cutting knives.
cutting-machine n.
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1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 43/2 A rotary cutting-machine or ‘ripper’.
1891 A. Chase & E. Clow Stories of Industry II. 43 The cutting-machine or shearing engine..shears the nap off close, leaving a smooth face to the cloth.
cutting-mill n.
cutting-nipper n.
cutting-plane n.
cutting-plate n.
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1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 195 The cutting-plate itself is in the form of a screw, and thus acts both as a drill and cutting-plate.
cutting-plier n.
cutting-press n.
cutting-punch n.
cutting-spade n.
cutting-table n.
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1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 443/2 I caught the young ragamuffin up on one of the cutting-tables dancing.
cutting-tool n.
d. (sense 1d.)
cutting-bench n.
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1936 P. Rotha Documentary Film ii. 77 Nothing photographed, or recorded on to celluloid, has meaning until it comes to the cutting-bench.
cutting-print n.
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1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing 279 Cutting-print, the particular positive print which the editor assembles and on which he works.
C2.
cutting-bed n. Microscopy a part of a microtome on which the cutting knife slides.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > microscope > combined with other instruments > part of microtome
cutting-bed1881
1881 W. B. Carpenter Microscope (ed. 6) v. 229 The circular cutting-bed, instead of being fixed on the upper end of the cylinder, is made to screw upon it.
cutting-bill n. a bill for cutting wood.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > bill hook
wood-billc725
billc1000
falsartc1380
wood-hookc1440
falchion1483
forest-bill1488
bush-scythe1552
brush-bill1588
cutting-bill1601
bill-hook1611
hook-bill1613
bush-bill1631
hack1846
snagger1847
slasher1858
bush-hook1860
slash-hook1891
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 536 Able to beare the cutting bill.
1772 Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 161 Other sorts [of trees] bear the woodman's cutting-bill more kindly.
cutting-box n. †(a) ? a chaff- or straw-cutter; (b) a receptacle for the diamond dust in diamond-cutting.
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1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Jan. vii. 69 The Chaff-cutter's Way was, to..put them upon some Cavings of Wheat..that he first placed at the Bottom of the long Cutting-box.
1778 Earl of Pembroke Mil. Equitation 136 Every troop ought to have a cutting-box..and one man constantly employed..in chopping hay, straw, &c.
cutting-brick n. = cutter n.1 7.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > types of
white brick1468
red brick1587
clinker1659
clinkerc1660
stock-brick1683
Windsor brick1702
grey stock1726
stockc1738
red stock1748
firebrick1749
Welsh lump1798
malm1811
cutting-brick1815
pecking1819
blue brick1823
malm brick1824
Windsor1841
cutter1842
grizzle1843
shuff1843
picking1850
Woolpit brick1887
Hollander1897
Staffordshire1898
Stafford brick1908
misfire1923
klompie1926
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 187 The finest kind of marl and red bricks are called cutting bricks.
cutting compound n. = cutting oil n. (see also quot. 1963).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > [noun] > cooling agent
cutting compound1910
cutting oil1917
coolant1941
1910 Metall. & Chem. Engin. May 293/1 They mixed a small amount..with their cutting compound and..the tool did not blunt nearly so rapidly as before.
1963 R. F. Webb Motorists' Dict. 71 Cutting compound, an abrasive paste used for smoothing the paintwork of a car before the final polishing.
cutting contest n. originally U.S. an informal competition of jazz musicians.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > informal competition
cutting contest1946
cutting session1959
1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues 372 Cutting contest, competitive get-together of performers.
1969 Listener 13 Mar. 358/3 Not to mention cutting contests in jazz, Eisteddfodau, and the choral and brass-band competitions which flourish in Northern industrial towns.
cutting horse n. U.S. a horse trained in separating cattle from a herd (cf. to cut out 4 at cut v. Phrasal verbs).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > for herding cattle
stock horse1846
cow-horse1853
cow-pony1874
cutting horse1881
cutting pony1887
1881 G. W. Romspert Western Echo 177 Each firm has particular horses trained for this business, and they are called ‘cutting horses’.
1937 Dial. Notes 6 618 A cutting horse is one especially trained to separate..a single animal from a whole herd. (I have seen one ‘cutting’ horse who could ‘cut’ a hen from a big flock of chickens.)
cutting-house n. a house where the cutting of clothing materials, meat, or other substances is done.
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1660 S. Pepys Diary 10 Mar. (1970) I. 84 In the morning went to my father, whom I took in his cutting-house.
cutting oil n. a preparation for the lubrication and cooling of the tool and the piece of metal being cut or worked in various machining operations.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > [noun] > cooling agent
cutting compound1910
cutting oil1917
coolant1941
1917 J. R. Battle Lubricating Engin. Handbk. 300 The usual soluble cutting oil is made of a combination of oils..and is designed to permit its being mixed with varying amounts of water to form a stable cutting emulsion.
1955 Oxf. Junior Encycl. VIII. 248/2 Today there are various brands of cutting oils, most of which are mixtures of mineral oil, soaps, and an emulsifying chemical which makes the oils mix readily with water. These keep the tool and work-piece cool during the cutting operations, and so prevent excessive wear and distortion of the work.
cutting pony n. U.S. a pony trained in separating cattle from a herd (cf. to cut out 4 at cut v. Phrasal verbs).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > for herding cattle
stock horse1846
cow-horse1853
cow-pony1874
cutting horse1881
cutting pony1887
1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin (Lentzner) I had been furnished with a trained cutting pony.
1902 A. MacGowan Last Word 435 A lady that's been as able as any cowboy on the range..to manage anything, from a cuttin' pony as fine as silk, to the meanest buckin' bronc.
cutting-pot n. a pot used for the planting of cuttings.
cutting service n. Tennis a service in which the player cuts the ball.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [noun] > types of stroke
service1611
serving1688
screw1865
cut1874
cutting service1874
boast1878
first serve1878
smash1882
twister1884
cross-shot1889
lob1890
ground stroke1895
lob ball1900
twist service1901
boasting1902
cross-volley1905
get1911
chop1913
forehander1922
kick serve1925
forehand1934
touch shot1936
dink1939
net shot1961
overhead1964
groundie1967
slice1969
moonball1975
moonballing1977
1874 Field 8 Aug. Far better than a game run off by a cutting service.
cutting session n. originally U.S. = cutting contest n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > informal competition
cutting contest1946
cutting session1959
1959 Jazz Rev. May 12/1 A wild cutting session was in progress and sitting around the piano were twenty or thirty musicians.
cutting-shoe n. a shoe specially constructed for horses which cut or interfere (see cut v. 27).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] > horseshoe > types of horseshoe
remove1512
lunette1566
half-moon shoe1607
pancelet1607
plate1607
patten shoe1639
linnet-hole1662
cross-bar shoe1675
interfering shoe1678
pantofle shoe1696
panton shoe1696
cutting-shoe1711
skim1795
skimmer1801
bar-shoe1831
sandal1831
tip1831
racket1846
hipposandal1847
slipper1903
stumbling-shoe1908
mud-shoe1940
1711 London Gaz. No. 4832/4 [A horse] shod with cutting Shoes turn'd up the inside Web.
cutting stick n. a strip of wood or other material which receives the edge of the knife in the cutting cylinder of a paper-cutting machine as it severs each sheet.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > paper-making equipment > [noun] > for cutting paper
cutting stick1888
cutting cylinder1909
1888 J. F. Wilson & D. Grey Pract. Treat. Mod. Printing Mach. iii. xxvi. 431 Small cutting machines are frequently turned by hand... Cutting-sticks, which fit into the table immediately under the knife, are generally made of hard wood.
cutting stylus n. = cutter n.1 4c.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > cutting stylus
stylus1875
cutter stylus1908
cutting stylus1926
1926 Wireless World 15 Sept. 399/2 This megaphone concentrated the sound waves on to a mechanical diaphragm to which was connected a cutting stylus resting on a revolving disc of soft wax.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
cuttingadj.
1.
a. That cuts, in various senses of the verb.
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the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > [adjective]
sharpc825
bitel?c1200
keena1225
carving?c1225
fellc1330
trenchantc1330
snarpc1480
cuttinga1533
tart?a1534
undullc1540
steel-sharpa1560
teen1578
unrebated1579
unbated1604
biting1607
eager?1611
unblunted1656
shrewd1878
cutty1903
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) xviii. sig. Ciii Full of cuttyng and sharpe rockes.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12802 A kene spere, cuttyng before.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 109 It is of a cooling, cutting, and penetrating faculty.
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiii. 223 Their Edge Tools..are also of a different shape..towards the cutting end.
1696 London Gaz. No. 3247/4 Two Swords, one..with a full cutting Blade.
1885 H. C. McCook Tenants Old Farm 240 Several large colonies of cutting-ants.
b. Of wind, weather, etc.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [adjective] > sharp or bitter
fellc1330
snithinga1350
sharpc1435
hoar?a1500
sneaping1598
shrewd1603
bittera1616
snithe1671
cutting1798
stingy1823
1798 R. Southey Eng. Eclogues iv 'Tis cutting keen! I smart at every breath.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 32 And be thine ire Lightning and cutting hail.
1834 H. Martineau Farrers of Budge-Row i. 1 Perhaps you don't know..what a cutting wind it is.
c. That cuts down prices or undersells. colloquial.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > in specific manner
retailing?1582
wholesale1607
cutting1851
direct1892
wholesaling1896
underselling1899
quick-turnover1951
outbound1989
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [adjective] > declining in price > cutting prices
cutting1851
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 232/2 Those employers who seek to reduce the prices of a trade are known technologically as ‘cutting employers’.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 425/2 By that time other ‘cutting’ shops were opened.
1884 Christian World 12 June 443/4 An employer of the cutting sort would..say ‘Now, we must produce this article for a shilling less’.
2. That acutely wounds the mind or feelings.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adjective]
anguishous?c1225
wounding?c1225
asperc1374
derflya1400
rending?c1400
furiousc1405
fretting1413
piercingc1450
anguish1477
piquant1521
anguishing?1566
plaguing1566
asperous?1567
agonizing1570
tormenting1575
wringing1576
cutting1582
tormentous1583
tormentful1596
tormentuous1597
racking1598
torturous1600
lacerating1609
torturing1611
tearinga1616
heart-aching1620
breast-rending1625
crucifying1648
tormentative1654
martyring?a1656
tormentive1655
discruciating1658
cruciatory1660
anguishful1685
brain-racking1708
probing1749
agonized1793
anguished1803
harrowing1810
vulnerary1821
grinding1869
torturesome1889
wrenching1889
tortuous1922
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adjective] > mordant
smartc1330
unkeen?a1425
mordant1474
piquant1521
pugnant1537
quick1542
nippingc1547
nippy1575
cutting1582
yarking1593
stinging1600
pointed1617
pungent1619
toothed1628
aculeate1640
mordacious1648
aculeated1655
piperaceous1674
peppery1826
pointy1883
lashing1900
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 78 Dido the poore Princesse gauld with such destenye cutting, Crau's mortal passadge.
1652 C. B. Stapylton tr. Herodian Imperiall Hist. xiv. 115 Their cutting quips and wonted jeering.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. iv. 31 You said cutting things! Very cutting things.
a1796 H. Venn in Compl. Duty Man, Mem. (1841) 18 The cutting affliction of losing you.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. ix. 217 He can say the driest, most cutting things in the quietest of tones.
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1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall Ded. sig. A2 Cutting Hufsnufs, Roisters.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. C2v Wherefore haue I such a companie of cutting knaues to wait vpon me.
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. Ev Brave youthfull Gentlemen and cutting companions.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. vii. 181 The cutting mercer of Abingdon..dashing Master Goldthred.]
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