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Definition of Cut into
1. Verb. Turn up, loosen, or remove earth. "Turn over the soil for aeration"
Generic synonyms: Remove, Take, Take Away, Withdraw
Specialized synonyms: Furrow, Groove, Rut, Root, Rootle, Rout, Spade, Shovel, Trowel, Burrow, Tunnel
Derivative terms: Dig, Dig, Digger, Digging
Also: Dig In, Dig Out, Dig Up
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cut Into
Literary usage of Cut into
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... covering the whole body, being a very extraordinary : figure, and the painting
exceeding freih. At the entrance on each fide are four men : cut into the ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
""The claim is made that the merchandise consists of leather cut into forms suitable
for conversion into manufactured articles, and should therefore be ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"To cut into, cut out of ; to geld or castrate, synon. to lib, S. ; abo, to shape
or point, as, to »nib a pen, Clydes. 3. To set or fix in an incision, ..."
4. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Terry White, James T. White & Company (1898)
"... a practically new motion, whereby wire could be covered by continuous pinces-
ami cut into proper lengths with extension tips on each end of the wire. ..."
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