Meanings
verbtocut (third-person singular simple present tocuts, present participle tocutting, simple past and past participle tocut)
present singular third person tocuts · participle present tocutting · alternative to-cut · alternative to cut
- obsoletetransitiveTo cut to pieces; hew asunder.
His leaues be ashe colour, and all to cut.
1578, H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xcvi. 2772 more examples
The Cassydonyens..were slayne and all to-cutte and clouen.
1490, Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xxxviii. 141Out went our light armed companies,..and all to cut and hacked them.
1609, P. Holland tr. A. Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxv. iii. 264
Origin
- Middle Englishto-kutten
- Englishtocut
From Middle English to-kutten, *tocutten, equivalent to to- (“apart”) + cut.
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