Word Meanings - CUTTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.

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• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• SHORTCAKE
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• SHORTLY
  1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
• SHORT-JOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• SHORT-DATED
  Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• SHORT-WAISTED
  Having a short waist.
• SHORT
  In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. To sell short , to sell, for future delivery,
• 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.
• SHORTENING
  That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc. (more info) 1. The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
• SHORTSTOP
  The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
• SHORT-SPOKEN
  Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
• SHORT-BREATHED
  1. Having short-breath, or quick respiration. 2. Having short life.
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• SHORTSIGHTED
  1. Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia. 2. Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect. 3. Having little regard for the future; heedless. -- Short"sight`ed*ly, adv.
• SHORTEN
  1. To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity. 2. To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract;
• SHORTCLOTHES
  Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.
• 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.
• RED-SHORT
  Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron. -- Red"-short`ness, n.
• POCKETKNIFE
  A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.