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breadcutter

noun

Etymology

From bread + cutter.

  1. inherited from cutter
  2. compounded as breadcutter — “bread + cutter”

Definitions

  1. A device for cutting bread, often consisting of a platform and a hinged blade.

    • Our cafeterie was a murky cellar measuring twenty feet by seven by eight high, and so crowded with coffee-urns, breadcutters and the like that one could hardly move without banging against something.

  2. A person employed to cut bread.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA