Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume C
2. A foul-mouthed fellow. "An you play the saucy cuttle with me." Shak.
Cut"tle bone` (bōn`). The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
Cut·too" plate` (k?t-t?" pl?t`). A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.
Cut"ty (kŭt"t
), a. [Cf. Ir. & Gael. cut a short tail, cutach bobtailed. See Cut.] Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark. [Scot.]
Cut"ty (k?t"t?), n. [Scotch.]
1. A short spoon.
2. A short tobacco pipe. Ramsay.
3. A light or unchaste woman. Sir W. Scott.
Cut"ty·stool` (-st
l`), n.
1. A low stool. [Scot.]
2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
Cut"wal (kŭt"wôl), n. [Per. kotwāl.] The chief police officer of a large city. [East Indies]
Cut"wa`ter (kŭt"wô`t
r), n. (Naut.)
1. The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.
2. A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.