glass cutting

American  

[glas kuht-ing] / ˈglæs ˌkʌt ɪŋ /

noun

1. the art or craft, practiced by a glass cutter, of etching designs into the surface of glass.

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Other Word Forms

• glass cutter noun
• glass-cutting adjective

Example Sentences

I'm at an AirBnb on a shrubby desert hillside, chopping an onion with a dull chef's knife on a glass cutting board.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2021

The woman’s words came back to her like shards of glass, cutting into her: We’ll never stop.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

In one experiment some of the cuttings were placed in a glass cutting bed in live sphagnum covered with sand, the upper ends of the cuttings projecting from the sand.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Her heart closed down on the splinters of glass, cutting itself at every beat.

From Anne Severn and the Fieldings by Sinclair, May

By marking the blood pipette above the level of the serum with the glass cutting knife and snapping the tube at that point, the blood-serum becomes readily accessible for testing purposes.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)