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verb

Cut v. i. (past & past part. cut; pres. part. cutting)

1.

To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.

2.

To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument. "Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese."

3.

To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument. "He saved the lives of thousands by his manner of cutting for the stone."

4.

To make a stroke with a whip.

5.

To interfere, as a horse.

6.

To move or make off quickly. (Colloq.)

7.

To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.

To cut across, to pass over or through in the most direct way; as, to cut across a field.

To cut and run, to make off suddenly and quickly; from the cutting of a ship's cable, when there is not time to raise the anchor. (Colloq.)

To cut in or To cut into, to interrupt; to join in anything suddenly.

To cut up.

(a)

To play pranks. (Colloq.)

(b)

To divide into portions well or ill; to have the property left at one's death turn out well or poorly when divided among heirs, legatees, etc. (Slang.) "When I die, may I cut up as well as Morgan Pendennis."

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"Cut in" Quotes from Famous Books

... a meal fit for gourmets. It was in a rough pitch-pine hut at rough tables. Clam-soup was served to us in cylindrical preserved meat cans on which the maker's labels still clung—but it lost none of its delightful flavour for that. Beef was served cut in strips in a great bowl, and we all reached out for the vegetables. There were mammothine bowls of mixed salad possessing an astonishing (to British eyes) lavishness of hard-boiled egg, lemon pie (lemon curd pie) with ...

— Westward with the Prince of Wales • W. Douglas Newton

... but sat staring at the stars, searching stubbornly to find his lost hope, struggling over and over to see the way. And all that he could see was a long, dry, ugly cut in the desert, a vain, foolish, stupid thing; Mr. Crawford a ruined, broken man; Argyl smitten with sorrow and disappointment; himself the vanquished leader of a mad campaign; Oliver Swinnerton and his servitors flushed with victory. ...

— Under Handicap - A Novel • Jackson Gregory

... lower Annulosa, is the possession of similar pairs of ganglia. These pairs of ganglia, though connected by nerves, are very incompletely dependent on any general controlling power. Hence it results that when the body is cut in two, the hinder part continues to move forward under the propulsion of its numerous legs; and that when the chain of ganglia has been divided without severing the body, the hind limbs may be seen trying to propel the body in one direction while the fore limbs are trying to propel ...

— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer

... accident. The cord was cut and the child survived and thrived, though the mother soon died. Stalpart tells the almost incredible story of a soldier's wife who went to obtain water from a stream and was cut in two by a cannonball while stooping over. A passing soldier observed something to move in the water, which, on investigation, he found to be a living child in its membranes. It was christened by order of one Cordua and lived for some ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... speak of the foul air on board the prison ship caused by the fact that all her port holes were closed, and a few openings cut in her sides, which were insufficient to ventilate her. Coffin says there was a good passage of air through the vessel from her port holes. It is probable that the Jersey became so notorious as a death trap that at last, ...

— American Prisoners of the Revolution • Danske Dandridge

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