Word Meanings - OBTRUNCATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of lopping or cutting off. Cockeram.

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• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• LOPPER
  One who lops or cuts off.
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• CUTTING
  1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• LOPPARD
  A tree, the top of which has been lopped off.
• CUTTLE BONE
  The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
• CUTTINGLY
  In a cutting manner.
• CUTTLE
  A knife. Bale.
• CUTTOO PLATE
  A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.
• CUTTER
  1. One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments. 2. That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.
• LOPPING
  A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings. The loppings made from that stock whilst it stood. Burke.
• CUTTLE; CUTTLEFISH
  A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally. Note: It has an
• LOPPY
  Somewhat lop; inclined to lop.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
• SLOPPINESS
  The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.
• CHALKCUTTER
  A man who digs chalk.
• STONECUTTING
  Hewing or dressing stone.
• SCREW-CUTTING
  Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.
• STONECUTTER
  One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
• SCUTTER
  To run quickly; to scurry; to scuttle. A mangy little jackal . . . cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows. Kipling.
• WOODCUTTING
  1. The act or employment of cutting wood or timber. 2. The act or art of engraving on wood.
• CORNCUTTER
  1. A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle. 2. An implement consisting of a long blade, attached to a handle at nearly a right angle, used for cutting down the stalks of Indian corn.