Word Meanings - CUTLERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The business of a cutler. 2. Edged or cutting instruments, collectively.

Related words: (words related to CUTLERY)

• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• EDGELESS
  Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• EDGEBONE
  See AITCHBONE
• 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.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• EDGING
  1. That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden. Dryden. 2. The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal. Edging machine, a machine tool
• EDGELONG
  In the direction of the edge. Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck Edgelong into the ground. B. Jonson.
• EDGINGLY
  Gradually; gingerly.
• CUTTLE BONE
  The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
• CUTLER
  One who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other cutting instruments.
• CUTTINGLY
  In a cutting manner.
• EDGE
  Icel. & Sw. egg, Dan. eg, and to L. acies, Gr. a edge. Egg, v. t., 1. The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
• 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.
• 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
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• LEDGEMENT
  See LEDGMENT
• WEDGY
  Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
• DULEDGE
  One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage. Wilhelm.
• FLEDGELING
  A young bird just fledged.
• PLEDGERY
  A pledging; suretyship.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• PLEDGE
  The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
• SEA HEDGEHOG
  A sea urchin.
• FLEDGE
  Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly. Hfledge with wings. Milton.