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breadcutter

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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noun

Meaning 2

A person employed to cut bread.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1975, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956, translated by Thomas P. Whitney, New York: Harper & Row, Vol. II, Part III, Chapter 9, p. 273, He would willingly have cut six sides off the bread ration too, but he had no other bread, and he therefore limited himself to holding his bread ration over the hot plate, burning from all six sides the microbes implanted there by the hands of the bread-cutters [...]

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History

Etymology

From bread + cutter.