Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who cuts corns or indurations of the skin; a chiropodist.
- noun A machine for reaping corn, or for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.
- noun An implement consisting of a long blade, attached to a handle at nearly a right angle, used for cutting down the stalks of Indian corn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
machine forcutting upstalks ofcorn forcattle feed . - noun An
implement consisting of a longblade attached to ahandle at nearly aright angle , used for cutting down thestalks ofIndian corn .
Etymologies
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corn + cutter
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Examples
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There was an old man in the settlement by the name of McBride, who had been a soldier in the Revolutionary War; he was killed by being hacked to pieces with a corncutter while begging for his life.
The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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