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downcutting

noun

Etymology

From down + cutting.

  1. derived from *kwetwą✻ — “meat, flesh”
  2. derived from *kutjaną✻
  3. derived from *kytja✻
  4. inherited from cutten
  5. suffixed as cutting — “cut + ing”
  6. compounded as downcutting — “down + cutting”

Definitions

  1. An erosion process that deepens a channel by removing material from a stream's bed or a…

    An erosion process that deepens a channel by removing material from a stream's bed or a valley's floor.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for downcutting. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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