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biscuit-cutter en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of biscuit cutter.
   alt of biscuit cutter
   • Teri’s preferred method is to take her largest biscuit-cutter to the market and find tomatoes that match its size so she can use it to cut rounds out of white bread that line up just right with each red slice. […] I don’t use a biscuit-cutter, and my seasoning is limited to good old salt and pepper. 2021 July 25, Joe Yonan, “This Southern tomato sandwich is a messy, 5-ingredient ode to summer’s star”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2021:
   • On Thursday last, a strolling baker, who names himself Thomas Ross, having managed, unobserved, to enter the premises of Samuel Young, biscuit baker, Gallowgate, deliberately carried off an oven grate, a sieve, four tins, three rolling pins, three metal and two brass weights, a tin biscuit-cutter, and four biscuit-dabbers. 1851 July 15, “Extensive Theft”, in North British Daily Mail, number 1,332, Glasgow, →OCLC, page [2], column 3:
   • EVERY description of Jelly, Cake, Wax Basket, and Spun Sugar Moulds; Lozenge, Herico, and Biscuit-cutters; […] and every article in the trade. Goods sent into the country by persons remitting a post-office order. 1846 August 30, R. Brooke, “To Pastrycooks and Biscuit-Bakers”, in Weekly Dispatch, number 2339, London, →OCLC, page 416, column 3:
   • Cut rounds with a biscuit-cutter or glass, or cut rectangles with a knife. 2021 June 23, “Buttermilk Biscuits”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 143, number 174, St. Louis, Mo., →ISSN, →OCLC, page L4, column 5:

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