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cuttle

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cut⋅tle

1  [kuht-l]
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–noun
1. cuttlefish.
2. cuttlebone.
Origin:
bef. 1000; late ME codel, OE cudele (replaced in the 16th century by cuttlefish and subsequently reshortened)

cut⋅tle

2  [kuht-l]
–verb (used with object), -tled, -tling. Textiles.
1. to fold (cloth) face to face after finishing.
2. to allow (cloth) to lie without further treatment after fulling, milling, scouring, etc.
Origin:
1535–45; orig. uncert.
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cuttle

noun
ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell [syn: cuttlefish] 
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