canecutter

or cane cut·ter

[ keyn-kuht-er ]

/ ˈkeɪnˌkʌt ər /

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noun

any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.

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Also called swamp rabbit.

Origin of canecutter

1835–45, Americanism, for earlier sense; cane + cutter

How to use canecutter in a sentence

But the police nevertheless declared Stone to be “armed and dangerous,” despite getting around with a cane.
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Hitch picks up his cane, pushes her aside, and laboriously tries to get to his feet, saying, “I'll do it myself.”
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He's grinning now and actually stretching his legs--his cane has fallen away as he speaks of the !
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His friend has dropped hat and cane in shock but the drawing shows stuff that an Americana collector nowadays would kill for.
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Then Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, made a bad batch of vaccine, and 40,000 children were sickened with polio.
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In some parts of Korea the houses were built of stout timbers, the chinks covered with woven cane and plastered with mud.
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Aunty Rosa had hidden a light cane behind her, and Punch was beaten then and there over the shoulders.
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His chief duty on the sugar plantation is to keep the monkeys out of the cane.
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Besides, there is always a bunch of bananas hanging inside the house, and he has sugar-cane in abundance.
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Receiving small encouragement in England, he applied to sugar-cane planters to give his engines a trial in the West Indies.
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