cutting (kuting)

[ME. cuttynge, kitting; verbal n. of cut, v.] 1. A piece cut off; a slip; a slice; a clipping. Specifically-(a) A small shoot or branch cut from a plant and placed in the earth, or in sand, etc., to root and form a new plant. Propagation by cuttings has been long known, and is abundantly simple when applied to such free-growing hardy shrubs as the willow and the gooseberry. Loudon , Encyc. of Gardening, p. 657. (b) A section; a thin slice used for microscopical purposes. (c) A slip cut from a newspaper or other print contain ing a paragraph or an article which one wishes to use or preserve. 2. An excavation made through a hill or rising ground, in constructing a road, railway, canal, etc.: the opposite of a filling.-3. The action of a horse when he strikes the inner and lower part of the fetlock-joint with the opposite hoof while traveling.-4. A caper; a curvet. Changes, cuttings, turnings, and agitations of the body. Florio, tr. of Montaigne's E ays, p. 228. 5. In coal - mining, work done in mining or getting implement, resembling a broad thin chisel, fixed to a pole ten feet or more in length, used to cut the blubber from a whale. C. M. Scammon, Marine Mammals.