Cuttings
['kʌtɪŋ]
Examples
- Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Great gangs of men were employed in excavating canals, in making railway cuttings and embankments, and the like. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I will take the black clay with me, also the pencil cuttings. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- With plants which are temporarily propagated by cuttings, buds, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Editor: Martin