Cutlery Definition

kŭtlə-rē
noun
Cutting implements, such as knives and scissors.
Webster's New World
The work or business of a cutler.
Webster's New World
Knives, spoons, and other implements used in preparing and eating food.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Cutlery

Noun

Singular:
cutlery
Plural:
cutleries

Origin of Cutlery

  • Middle English cutellerie from Old French coutelerie from coutel knife cutlass

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French coutelerie (modern: coutellerie).

    From Wiktionary

Cutlery Sentence Examples

  • There are manufactures of paper and coarse cutlery, and a high school.

  • Metals, including hardware and cutlery, railway material, &c., supply about a fifth.

  • The most important seat of the manufacture of cutlery and the finer kinds of steel is at Sheffield.

  • Malt, tinware, flour and grist-mill products, boilers, stoves and ranges, optical supplies, wall-paper, cereals, canned goods, cutlery, tin cans and wagons are manufactured, and there are also extensive nurseries.

  • New Britain is an important manufacturing centre; its principal products are hardware, cutlery and edge tools, hosiery, and foundry and machine shop products.

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Words Starting With

CCUCUT

Words Ending With

YRYERY

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Words Starting With C and Ending With Y

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