cutlery

noun
/ˈkʌt.lə.ɹi/

Etymology

From Middle English cotellerie, cutleri (“the cutler’s art or craft”), from Old French coutelerie (modern French coutellerie).

  1. derived from coutelerie
  2. inherited from cotellerie

Definitions

  1. Sharp cutting utensils.

    • Proper maintenance of your cutlery will keep the blades from dulling.
  2. Eating or serving utensils such as knives, forks, and spoons.

    • a cutlery set
    • This cutlery comes from Normandy, France.
  3. The business of a cutler.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cutlery. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01cutlery02serving03drink04bottle05baby06mastered07master08mariner09vessel

A definitional loop anchored at cutlery. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at cutlery

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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