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- English Word Cuttle Definition A knife.
- English Word Cuttle Definition Alt. of Cuttlefish
- English Word Cuttle bone Definition The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
- English Word Cuttlefish Definition 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.
- English Word Cuttlefish Definition A foul-mouthed fellow.
- English Word Cuttoo plate Definition A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.
- English Word Cutty Definition A short spoon.
- English Word Cutty Definition A short tobacco pipe.
- English Word Cutty Definition A light or unchaste woman.
- English Word Cuttystool Definition A low stool
- English Word Cuttystool Definition A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
- English Word Cutwal Definition The chief police officer of a large city.
- English Word Cutwater Definition The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.
- English Word Cutwater Definition A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.
- English Word Cutwater Definition A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.
- English Word Cutwork Definition An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.
- English Word Cutworm Definition A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvae of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.
- English Word Cuvette Definition A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.
- English Word Cuvette Definition A cunette.
- English Word Cuvette Definition A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer.