cuttle

¹ American  

[kuht-l] / ˈkʌt l /

verb (used with object)

Textiles.

cuttled, cuttling

1. to fold (cloth) face to face after finishing.

2. to allow (cloth) to lie without further treatment after fulling, milling, scouring, etc.

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cuttle ² American  

[kuht-l] / ˈkʌt l /

noun

1. cuttlefish.

2. cuttlebone.

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cuttle British  

/ ˈkʌtəl /

noun

1. short for cuttlefish cuttlebone

2. a small cuttlefish, Sepiola atlantica, often found on beaches

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Etymology

Origin of cuttle¹

First recorded in 1535–45; origin uncertain

Origin of cuttle¹

before 1000; late Middle English codel, Old English cudele (replaced in the 16th century by cuttlefish and subsequently reshortened)

Example Sentences

Sometimes ink was made of the cuttle fish or from lees of wine.

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These two must have been octopods if they were anything; the word "polypus" thus especially designates it, and moreover, the free-swimming cuttles and squids would be helpless if stranded on the shore.

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This family becomes extinct at the close of the 79Mesozoic, though the cuttles as a whole perhaps culminate in the modern.

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The animals of the North American Indians are represented as stealing fire sometimes from the cuttle fish and sometimes from one another.

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Among those so stung with unrest were several of the gigantic, pallid cuttles.

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