Word Meanings - DRAW-CUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A single cut with a knife.

Related words: (words related to DRAW-CUT)

• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• SINGLE-ACTING
  Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• SINGLE-HANDED
  Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
• SINGLE-HEARTED
  Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv.
• SINGLE-MINDED
  Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single- hearted.
• SINGLENESS
  1. The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity. 2. Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity;
• SINGLES
  See 2
• SINGLET
  An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet.
• KNIFE SWITCH
  A switch consisting of one or more knifelike pieces hinged at one end and making contact near the other with flat gripping springs.
• SINGLETON
  In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.
• SINGLESTICK
  In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword. The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling.
• SINGLE-FOOT
  An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed pace. See Single, v. i. Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare, distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities in that
• SINGLE TAX
  A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, -- advocated by certain economists as the sole source of public revenue. Whatever may be thought of Henry George's single-tax theory as a whole, there can be little question that
• KNIFE
  1. An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife,
• KNIFEBOARD
  A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
• KNIFEEDGE; KNIFE-EDGE
  A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. Knife-edge file. See Illust. of
• SINGLE-SURFACED
  Having one surface; -- said specif. of aëroplanes or aërocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.
• SINGLETREE
  The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree. Note: When two horses draw abreast, a singletree is fixed at each end of another crosspiece, called the doubletree.
• SINGLE
  simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See Simple, and cf. 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions
• CASE KNIFE
  1. A knife carried in a sheath or case. Addison. 2. A large table knife; -- so called from being formerly kept in a case.
• BOWIE KNIFE
  A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie.
• DRAWING KNIFE; DRAWKNIFE
  A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood. (more info) 1. A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing
• PENKNIFE
  A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.
• POCKETKNIFE
  A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.
• JACKKNIFE
  A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife.