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cutlass |
cutlass fish |
cutlassfish |
cutleaved coneflower |
cutler |
cutlery
| cutlet
| cutling
| cutoff
| cutoff saw
| cutose
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cutlery
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cutlery has 2 senses
- cutlery(n = noun.artifact) cutter, cutting tool - a cutting implement; a tool for cutting; Array has particulars: bolt cutter, cigar cutter, die, edge tool, glass cutter, tile cutter
- cutlery(n = noun.artifact) eating utensil - tableware implements for cutting and eating food; Array has particulars: fork, spoon, spork, table knife
is a kind of cutting implement
has parts: grip, handgrip, handle, hold
is a kind of tableware
CIDE DICTIONARY
cutlery, n.
- The business of a cutler. [1913 Webster]
- Edged or cutting instruments, collectively, especially knives for cutting food. [1913 Webster]
- eating utensils such as knives, forks, and spoons. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cutlery, n. knives, forks, and spoons for use at table.
Etymology
OF & F coutel(l)erie (as CUTLER)
THESAURUS
cutlery
ax, blade, cold steel, cutter, dagger, dining utensils, edge tools, flat silver, flatware, forks, hollow ware, knife, knives, naked steel, pigsticker, point, puncturer, sharpener, silver, silver plate, silverware, spoons, stainless-steel ware, steel, sword, tablespoon, tableware, teaspoon, toad sticker, whittleROGET THESAURUS
cutlery
Sharpness
N sharpness, acuity, acumination, spinosity, point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum, needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin, prick, prickle, spur, rowel, barb, spit, cusp, horn, antler, snag, tag thorn, bristle, Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca, nib, tooth, tusk, spoke, cog, ratchet, crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille, spire, pyramid, steeple, beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle, comb, awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle, wedge, knife edge, cutting edge, blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor, scalpel, bistoury, lancet, plowshare, coulter, colter, hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill, billhook, cleaver, cutter, scythe, sickle, scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter, sword, bodkin, belduque, bowie knife, paring knife, bushwhacker, drawing knife, drawing shave, microtome, chisel, screwdriver blade, flint blade, guillotine, sharpener, hone, strop, grindstone, whetstone, novaculite, steel, emery, sharp, keen, acute, acicular, aciform, aculeated, acuminated, pointed, tapering, conical, pyramidal, mucronate, mucronated, spindle shaped, needle shaped, spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated, cornute, cornuted, cornicultate, prickly, spiny, spinous, spicular, thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary, craggy, snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform, dentiform, denticulated, toothed, odontoid, starlike, stellated, stelliform, sagittate, sagittiform, arrowheaded, arrowy, barbed, spurred, acinaciform, apiculate, apiculated, aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate, lanceolate, lanciform, awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl- shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped, setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid, cutting, sharp edged, knife edged, sharp as a razor, keen as a razor, sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack, sharpened, set.
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