Word Meanings - DETRUNCATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.
Related words: (words related to DETRUNCATION)
- 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.