canecutter

Or cane cut·ter

[keyn-kuht-er]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of canecutter¹

1835–45, for earlier sense; cane + cutter

Example Sentences

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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