v
(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To flay; strip; peel.
v
(transitive) To cut up; carve; slash.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To cut or hack, as in combat.
v
(transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.
v
(transitive) To cut or chop (meat, etc.) into separate pieces.
n
The act by which something is churned.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To open or close by means of a hinge, similar to the way a clamshell opens and closes.
n
The material raked up; a rakeful.
v
To remove all trees or vegetation from an area.
v
(transitive) To pelt with clods.
v
To pass something through a sieve.
v
To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
n
A former method of execution by placing heavy weights on the victim.
n
The act of scraping with a curette.
n
A slab, especially of meat.
n
The act or process of making cute
n
(medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
n
Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes.
v
(transitive) To surgically remove the claws of (an animal); to perform onychectomy on.
n
(by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
n
One who, or that which, dices (cuts into cubes); a tool for this purpose.
n
The action performed by a person or thing that digs.
v
To cleanse or sift, as barley.
n
One who, or that which prepares by cutting
v
(transitive) To shred (twisted wool fiber, rags, etc.) so that it can be reused.
n
The act of making a gash, or cut.
v
(figuratively) To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit.
v
(intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
v
(intransitive) To split hairs.
n
(chiefly Britain, Ireland) A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
n
The act of torturing or executing someone by impaling them on a sharp stake.
v
(transitive) To prepare by cutting in this way.
n
The act by which something is lanced.
n
(US, usually derogatory) Marginally productive government-financed employment.
v
(transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
v
(transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
v
To remove a bud [from a plant] to prevent flower and fruit from forming.
v
(Ireland, slang) To sharpen a pencil.
v
Obsolete form of pierce. [(transitive) To puncture; to break through.]
n
A person whose job it is to peel fruit or vegetable produce.
n
(obsolete) The peel or skin.
v
(transitive) To extract the pith from (a plant stem or tree).
n
Synonym of peel (“tool for removing pizza etc. from an oven”)
v
(transitive, figuratively) To astonish; to shock or surprise utterly.
v
(transitive) To cut a rabbet in a piece of material.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To trim or abridge by cutting off parts.
v
(transitive) To prepare samples of material using a riffler.
v
To remove the bark, phloem, and cambium from a tree in a ring all the way around its trunk, thereby normally killing the tree.
v
(of an animal) to dig into the ground, with the snout.
v
(UK, textiles, transitive) To steep (cotton) to remove impurities.
n
The act by which something is sawn.
v
(transitive) To remove the grass from.
v
(horticulture) To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
n
(computing) A piece of software that screen-scrapes.
v
To create (a small ornamental handicraft also called a scrimshaw) by carving or engraving on bone (originally whalebone or whales' teeth), ivory, or other materials.
n
The act of using a scythe.
v
(archaic, transitive) To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.
n
The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
n
(archaic) A maker of sieves.
v
(transitive) To reduce to slag.
adj
Having been slashed, cut or rent.
n
Someone or something that slices.
n
(rare) The act or practice of slicing.
v
(transitive) To cut; to sever; to divide.
v
(transitive, dialectal) To wear away (clothes).
adj
(obsolete) Cut into strips with square ends.
v
(transitive, obsolete or dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.
v
(transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
n
One who, or that which, soaks.
n
(rare) One who, or that which, spans.
v
To plug (a hole) with a spile.
v
(obsolete, rare, transitive) To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter.
v
(transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
n
A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
n
A person or a thing that splits.
v
(roofing) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
v
(transitive) To form on an anvil.
v
To strip the pedical from a plant.
n
A strip of material designed to be torn to open a package.
n
Alternative form of temse [(UK, obsolete or dialectal) A sieve.]
v
(obsolete or dialectal) To sift.
v
(transitive) To delete using correction fluid.
n
The adhesive friction of a wheel etc on a surface.
n
One who, or that which, trammels or restrains.
n
A slice, section or portion.
v
(colloquial, figuratively) To apply something heavily or unsubtly.
n
The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
n
A versipellous object or thing.
v
To bore or pierce, as with a wimble.
n
The act of separating chaff from grain.
v
(transitive) To rub the surface of (fruit) in a bowl to extract essential oil
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