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Definition of Cuttle
1. Noun. Ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell.
Definition of Cuttle
1. n. A knife.
2. n. A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.
Definition of Cuttle
1. Noun. The cuttlefish. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A knife. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cuttle
1. to fold cloth in a particular fashion [v -TLED, -TLING, -TLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuttle
Literary usage of Cuttle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1882)
"From the earliest ages in which human curiosity concerning external nature began
to develop into scientific observation, the cuttle-fishes have formed ..."
2. Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1872)
"The " cuttle-bone " is a shell, not indeed inclosing the animal, but inclosed by
it ; being contained within a ... Throw this entire cuttle-shell into water ..."
3. At Home in Fiji by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1883)
"What he told us was as follows :— " A rat one day fell off a canoe into the sea,
and landed on the head of a cuttle-fish, greatly to the alarm of both. ..."
4. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"The cuttle-fish would seem to be a complete animal in itself, ... Hunter seems
subsequently to have recognized the male cuttle-fish: see Hunt , Preps. Nos. ..."
5. The works of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens (1891)
"CAPTAIN cuttle, in the exercise of that surprising talent ^ for deep-laid and
unfathomable scheming with which (as is not unusual in men of transparent ..."
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