canecutter

American

[keyn-kuht-er] / ˈkeɪnˌkʌt ər /

Or cane cutter

noun

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

Etymology

Origin of canecutter

1835–45, for earlier sense; cane + cutter

Example Sentences

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In Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, he played a middle-aging bull of a canecutter foreman who loses his job and his virile stud appeal at about the same time.

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