glass-cuttern.
1. One whose occupation it is to cut glass (e.g. to sizes for glazing), or to ornament glass-ware by grinding.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > worker with glass > [noun] > involved with specific types or processes
quarrel-picker1676
glass-cutter1703
puttier1860
notcher1962
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 156 The London Glass~cutters..have their Rules Centesimally divided.
1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 309 The grinding of glass, or frosting it..forms a branch of the glass-cutter's art.
1890 W. 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.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > glass-making equipment > [noun] > shaping equipment
ferret1662
punty1662
puntilion1665
pucellas1701
casting-table1728
marble1745
pinching tongs1765
borsella1823
punt1823
marver1832
pontil1832
punto1839
working tube1841
bullion-bar1852
blowing-iron1855
bullion-rod1862
blowpipec1865
pointel1865
gadget1868
casting-slaba1877
casting-plate1881
glass-cutter1881
sand core1894
polissoir1897
pontil rod1934
blowing-machine1940
blowing-pipe-
blowing-tube-
1881 F. Young 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.
1892 Daily News 13 July 7/3 Stealing therein 37 glaziers' diamond glass-cutters.
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glass-cutting n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 595 Glass cutting and grinding.
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