Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cuttlefish.
- noun Cuttlebone.
- noun A fold or plait of cloth, formed when the piece is done up in layers.
- To talk; chat.
- noun A knife, especially one used by cutpurses or pickpockets.
- noun Same as
cutter , 1 . - To fold (cloth) in plaits, with the exception of a length at one end, which is wrapped around the plaited part for convenience in unfolding and showing it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.
- noun A foul-mouthed fellow.
- noun obsolete A knife.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
knife . - noun obsolete A
foul-mouthed fellow . - noun The
cuttlefish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
Etymologies
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Examples
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I fear we must give up the notion of cuttle-fish stewed in their own ink, though some former travellers have not spoken so favourable of this Greek dish.
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Authors differ much as to the materials of which it is composed: some suppose it to consist of sea-worms, of the mollusca kind; others, of a kind of cuttle-fish, or a glutinous sea-plast called agal-agal.
Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux
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"I've no doubt," interposed Peterkin, "that he means cuttle, which is the short name for cuttle-fish, which, in such an inland place as this, must of course be hoaxes!
The Gorilla Hunters 1859
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The lencornet is z kind of cuttle-fifh, generally quite circular,
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That means, as we fishes describe it, a kind of cuttle or ink-fish among men. "
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Selflessly melding his sapience with lifeforms like cuttle.
The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean? 2010
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I've got a lovely fresh cuttle fish for you if you show...owner hits the cage
Steve Bell 27.01.11 2011
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Yuss, de s cuttle butt! was dat his daddi woz a reel shark, but wenebber ai asks my fambly de juss clams up.
KRAKEN - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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By some naturalists who have vaguely heard rumors of the mysterious creature, here spoken of, it is included among the class of cuttle-fish, to which, indeed, in certain external respects it would seem to belong, but only as the Anak of the tribe.
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Selflessly melding his sapience with lifeforms like cuttle.rachelQuote
The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean? 2010
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