cutra (kutra)

A Turkish weight for indigo, equal to 138 pounds 15 ounces avoirdupois. cutted (kut'ed), p. a. Obsolete or dialectal past participle iple of cut. Specifically-(a) Short in speech; curt; laconic. Be your words made, good Sir! of Indian ware, That you allow me them by so small rate? Or do you cutted Spartans imitate? Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 549). (b) Sharp in speech; tart; peevish; querulous. She's grown so cutted , there's no speaking to her. Middle ton , Women Beware Women, iii. 1. cutting Sleighs are swarming up and down the street, of all sorts and sizes, from the huge omnibus with its thirty pa engers to the light, gayly painted cutters , with their solitary, fur-capped tenants. The Upper Ten You sand , p. 4. 5. In mining : (a) A joint or crack, generally one which intersects or cro es a better-defined system of cracks or joints in the same rock. ( b ) In coal - mining , the system of joint-planes in the coal which is of secondary importance, being not so well developed as another set called the back, face, or cleat of the coal: generally used mineral plural in backers crystal the as, and cutters.-6. In which destroys or greatly le ens its value as a lapidaries' stone.-7. A soft yellow malm brick, used for face-work, from the facility with which it can be cut or rubbed down.-8. In a weavers' loom, the box which contains the quills.-Backs and cutters. See back1.- Drunken cutter, an elliptical or oblong cutter-head, so placed on the shaft that it rotates in a circular path; a wabbler. E. H. Knight.-Eccentric cutter. (a) A small instrument used by workers in ivory. It is formed like a drill-stock, IMG:content-1886.png:[blocks in formation]