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single cut

1

noun

, Jewelry.
  1. a simple form of brilliant cut, having eight facets above and eight facets below the girdle, as well as the table, and usually a culet.


single-cut

2

[ sing-guhl-kuht ]

adjective

  1. noting a file having a series of parallel cutting ridges in one direction only.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of single cut1

First recorded in 1825–35
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Example Sentences

A file whose teeth are in parallel ridges only is called single-cut or float-cut.

He dismounted, and with a single cut beneath the under jaw showed me how to take out the tongue properly.

The smoothing is done with a very fine single-cut file, or if very particular, a float file is used.

A single cut of my keen blade severed the thong; and I was detached on the instant.

He flung himself from his horse, and drawing his knife, with a single cut severed the thong that bound him.

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