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flame cutting

British

noun

engineering a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch

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The base also protects the tail of the bullet from flame cutting.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another fifteen minutes of shod hoofs pounding through the broken hills and he saw the first spurts of flame cutting through the shadows where the trees clung to the arroyo.

From The Bells of San Juan by Gregory, Jackson

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