Definitions

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  • noun One who cuts glass to make objects from it.
  • noun A device for cutting through glass.

Etymologies

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glass +‎ cutter

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Examples

  • In his testimony on Wednesday, the trained glasscutter told of his immigration to South Africa in 1981 and his move into right wing politics after the 1983 referendum, when former State

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Sharon's twin sister Valerie Percy was killed in 1966 thusly: bludgeoned up to four times on the head with a ball peen hammer, a fireplace poker or a similar instrument with a conical or triangular head .. stabbed as many as 14 times in the neck, chest and abdomen .. killer got in by cutting a screen, then scoring a door pane with a glasscutter - the crash that awakened Loraine Percy.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

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