cuttle
nounEtymology From Middle English coutel, from Old French coutel, coltel, cultel, from Latin cultellus. Doublet of couteau. See cutlass.
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Obsolete A knife.
- a sharpe cuttle1546, John Bale, The Actes of Englysh Votaries:
cuttle
noun/ˈkʌtəl/
Etymology From Middle English cutil, codel, codul, from Old English cudele (“cuttlefish”), a diminutive from Proto-Germanic *kudulǭ, from Proto-Germanic *kuddô + -ulǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). Equivalent to cod + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare dialectal German Kudele (“cuttlefish”), Norwegian kaule (“cuttlefish”).
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Synonym of cuttlefish.
- Derived terms
- cuttlebone