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verb

Cut v. i. (past & past part. cut; pres. part. cutting)

1.

To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.

2.

To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument. "Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese."

3.

To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument. "He saved the lives of thousands by his manner of cutting for the stone."

4.

To make a stroke with a whip.

5.

To interfere, as a horse.

6.

To move or make off quickly. (Colloq.)

7.

To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.

To cut across, to pass over or through in the most direct way; as, to cut across a field.

To cut and run, to make off suddenly and quickly; from the cutting of a ship's cable, when there is not time to raise the anchor. (Colloq.)

To cut in or To cut into, to interrupt; to join in anything suddenly.

To cut up.

(a)

To play pranks. (Colloq.)

(b)

To divide into portions well or ill; to have the property left at one's death turn out well or poorly when divided among heirs, legatees, etc. (Slang.) "When I die, may I cut up as well as Morgan Pendennis."

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"Cut in" Quotes from Famous Books

... panic-stricken and ran off, leaving their camp in confusion, and their supper which they were cooking but did not stop to eat. A little below the point where we reached the river, and on the other side, was the steamboat "Maffet" with a party of soldiers gathering the wheat which had been cut in the neighboring fields and was in the sheaf. I was for a moment doubtful whether it might not be one of our own boats which had ventured up the river under protection of the regiment left behind, and directed our skirmishers who were deployed along ...

— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox

... think so at all," cut in Hoskins, before Mr Perry could reply. "It may seem so to you, Purchase, because it has just been presented to you, fresh and unexpectedly, as it were. But when we arrived at King Olomba's town yesterday morning, and found neither slaves nor barracoon there, I must confess that I ...

— A Middy of the Slave Squadron - A West African Story • Harry Collingwood

... Sheehys' quarthers?' sez Dinah very slow, an' Judy cut in wid: 'He was there from nine till ten, Dinah Shadd, an' the betther half av that time I was sittin' on his knee, Dinah Shadd. Ye may look and ye may look an' ye may look me up an' down, but ye won't look away that Terence is my promust man, Terence, darlin', 'tis ...

— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... dragged into the boat insensible. A moment later and a hand was seen to rise in the midst of the wreckage. Guy knew it well. He grasped it and held on. A few seconds more and Jo Grain, with blood pouring down his face, from a deep cut in his head, was ...

— Personal Reminiscences in Book Making - and Some Short Stories • R.M. Ballantyne

... had purchased half a dozen lemons from the refreshment stand. One of these he cut in halves, secreting the pieces in a pocket of his clown costume; then when the time came he stationed himself in front of the bandstand where he stood until he had gained the attention of several of ...

— The Circus Boys On the Mississippi • Edgar B. P. Darlington

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