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Definition of Offcuts
1. offcut [n] - See also: offcut
Lexicographical Neighbors of Offcuts
Literary usage of Offcuts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practice of Typography: Modern Methods of Book Composition by Theodore Low De Vinne (1904)
"This scheme, although not often used, may be needed for offcuts and long pages
on a sheet of odd shape. 1 _ _8 5 — -4 : 3— -6 7 - -2 16 Eight pages for an ..."
2. The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the by Roald Amundsen (1913)
"... until great heaps of offcuts and hair lay about the floor; then the needle
was produced, and seam after seam added to those there were already. ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Art of Printing by William Savage (1841)
"... and this in proportion to the deficiency in the back; the same will take place
in the length in duodecimo, and in smaller sizes where there are offcuts, ..."
4. Churchwardens' Accounts of S. Edmund & S. Thomas, Sarum, 1443-1702: With by Henry James Fowle Swayne, Mary Amy Swayne Straton (1896)
"... Mr. Mayors order is C. Horton work ab' the leads 16s with 18 ft of old offcuts
3s in money 13s Mr. Barfoot at Michaelmas £i given at the Bishops Pallace ..."
5. Creating Wealth from Waste by Robin Murray (1999)
"Should the low quality of recyclables from a dirty MRF or an incinerator be put
in the same class as clean offcuts from a paper factory? ..."
6. Economic Instruments for Tropical Forests: The Congo Basin Case by Alain Karsenty (2000)
"The use of offcuts to manufacture mouldings and other secondary products represents
a related utilisation that does not come into the recovery rate as such, ..."
7. The Inform Designer's Manual by Graham Nelson (2001)
"... such a transcript: f Similarly, the published source code to 'Christminster'
contains "offcuts" such as a pulley-and-rope puzzle in the clock tower. ..."
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