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tocut en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English to-kutten, *tocutten, equivalent to to- (“apart”) + cut.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To cut to pieces; hew asunder.
    • The Cassydonyens..were slayne and all to-cutte and clouen. 1490, Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xxxviii. 141
    • Out went our light armed companies,..and all to cut and hacked them. 1609, P. Holland tr. A. Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxv. iii. 264
    • His leaues be ashe colour, and all to cut. 1578, H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xcvi. 277

Forms

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tocuts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
to cut alternative lexicographic
to-cut alternative lexicographic
tocutting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
tocut Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
tocut Tense=Past lexicographic