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• single cut
  single cut

  noun

  a simple form of brilliant cut, having eight facets above and eight facets below the girdle, as well as the table, and usually a culet.
• single-cut
  single-cut

  adjective

  noting a file having a series of parallel cutting ridges in one direction only.

single cut

¹ American  

noun

Jewelry.

1. a simple form of brilliant cut, having eight facets above and eight facets below the girdle, as well as the table, and usually a culet.

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single-cut ² American  

[sing-guhl-kuht] / ˈsɪŋ gəlˈkʌt /

adjective

1. noting a file having a series of parallel cutting ridges in one direction only.

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Etymology

Origin of single cut

First recorded in 1825–35

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Example Sentences

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Wobbly economic conditions could prompt Fed officials to lower rates more than the single cut they penciled in for 2026 back in December.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

Berman also likes recessed track systems that hold multiple lights within a single cut in the ceiling.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024

Maton’s homer and Zach McKinstry’s RBI single cut the deficit to 6-3 in the sixth.

From Washington Times ● May 21, 2023

No surprise then, that her first single, cut in 1959, was a spry rockabilly called “Puppy Love.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2022

This enabled direct comparison between the values of one cut and two cuts on a quarter in daily tappings and between a daily single cut and two cuts tapped alternate daily.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

It is the single-cut style that once existed at Augusta National, making No. 2 both more inviting off the tee and more challenging, because crooked shots will bounce and run farther off line.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 7, 2010

They are single-cut, and are usually either bastard or second-cut, although they are sometimes double-cut.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

The float file is like the flat, but single-cut.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various

The work is rotated considerably faster for filing than for turning, and the entire surface is filed by a flat, single-cut file, held as shown in Fig.

From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Franklin D. Jones

The "mill file," a very common form, is a flat, tapered, single-cut file.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

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