cuttle

¹ American  

[kuht-l] / ˈkʌt l /

noun

1. cuttlefish.

2. cuttlebone.

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cuttle ² 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 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

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

Origin of cuttle²

First recorded in 1535–45; origin uncertain

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Example Sentences

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cuttle cuttled cuttling

It is vain to call first love a fiction; it may be as fictitious as the ink of the cuttle or the doubling of the hare; as fictitious, as efficient, and as indispensable.

From George Bernard Shaw by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

It is also with the object of increasing their bodily powers that these epicures consume the uninviting sea-slug or bêche-de-mer, and dried sharks'-fins and cuttle fish.

From British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo by Sir W. H. (William Hood) Treacher

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

From Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina by W. D. Westervelt

This article, used in writing, is made of gum sandaric, powdered and sifted very fine; or an equal quantity of rosin, burnt alum, and cuttle fishbone well dried, and mixed together.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

This they dipped in the black liquor emitted by the cuttle fish, which served for ink.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

The doubled piece now passes between a pair of positively driven drawing rollers, and is then "faked," "cuttled," or pleated as indicated.

From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by T. Woodhouse

This operation is also known as "cuttling" or "faking."

From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by T. Woodhouse

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