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Cutting
·adj Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool. II. Cutting ·adj Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting ...

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Cutting
The flesh in various ways was an idolatrous practice, a part of idol-worship (Deut. 14:1; 1 Kings 18...

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Screw-cutting
·adj Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe. ...

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cutting-grass
n. Cladium psittacorum,Labill., N.O. Cyperaceae. It grows very long narrowblades whose thin rigid e...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
back-cutting
When the water-level is such that the excavation of a canal, or other channel, does not furnish eart...

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cutting down
Taking a deck off a ship; as ships of the line are converted into frigates, the Royal Sovereign into...

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cutting-out
A night-meal or forage in the officer's pantry. ...

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cutting out or in
In polar phraseology, is performed by sawing canals in a floe of ice, to enable a ship to regain ope...

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cutting in
Making the special directions for taking the blubber off a whale, which is flinched by taking off ci...

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cutting rigging
This includes the act of measuring it. ...

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cutting a feather
It is common when a ship has too broad a bow to say, "She will not cut a feather," meaning that she ...

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cutting-down line
An elliptical curve line used by shipwrights in the delineation of ships; it determines the depth of...

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cutting his painter
Making off suddenly or clandestinely, or "departed this life." ...

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