cuttle

[kuht-l]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

cuttle

[kuht-l]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

Textiles.

cuttled, cuttling

to fold (cloth) face to face after finishing.
to allow (cloth) to lie without further treatment after fulling, milling, scouring, etc.

cuttle

/ ˈ��ʌ��ə�� /

noun

short for cuttlefish cuttlebone
a small cuttlefish, Sepiola atlantica, often found on beaches

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cuttle¹

before 1000; late Middle English codel, Old English cudele (replaced in the 16th century by cuttlefish and subsequently reshortened)

Origin of cuttle²

First recorded in 1535–45; origin uncertain

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cuttle¹

Old English cudele; related to Old High German kiot bag, Norwegian dialect kaule cuttle, Old English codd bag

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Sometimes ink was made of the cuttle fish or from lees of wine.

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The belief in the power of the cuttle to sink a ship and devour her crew is as widely spread over the surface of the globe, as it is ancient in point of time.

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This family becomes extinct at the close of the 79Mesozoic, though the cuttles as a whole perhaps culminate in the modern.

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The animals of the North American Indians are represented as stealing fire sometimes from the cuttle fish and sometimes from one another.

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Among those so stung with unrest were several of the gigantic, pallid cuttles.

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cutting room cuttlebone

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