Cuttle
[kʌtl]
Definition
(n.) A knife.
(n.) Alt. of Cuttlefish
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Definition
n. a kind of mollusc remarkable for its power of ejecting a black inky liquid—also Cutt′le-fish.—n. Cutt′le-bone the internal shell or bone of the cuttle-fish used for making tooth-powder and for polishing the softer metals.
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Examples
- The cuttle-fish had a face that stared straight from the heart of the light, very fixed and coldly intent. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As to his blood, I suppose the family quarterings are three cuttle-fish sable, and a commentator rampant. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Casaubon cuttle-fish fluid to begin with, and then a rebellious Polish fiddler or dancing-master, was it? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was of a lovely deep blue colour, with a red floor, and a great white cuttle-fish flowing in white soft streams all over it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It seemed to shoot out arms of fire like a cuttle-fish, like a luminous polyp, palpitating strongly before her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Cuttle is familiar to every reader. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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