Meaning

noun a share of the profits

noun (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next

noun a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation

originFrom Middle English cutten, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Sometimes instead compared to French couteau, itself from Latin culter (“knife”). Compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)); also akin to Middle Swedish…

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