DSL - DOST Cut, n.1 Also: cutt, kut. [ME. cut, cutt (a 1300), kut, of obscure origin.] A lot (cast or drawn). Freq. combined with cavill.
(1) Sciendum est quod stallangiator nullo tempore potest habere loth, cut, neque cavyl ... cum burgense; ? a 1200 Acts I. 31/1. Quhen the maste party Of the folk distroyt war vtrely Be sic cuttis and cawelyng; Leg. S. xxxiii. 101. Gif dowt fallis tharby, Be cut or kavill that pled sone partit was; Doug. i. viii. 27. Be cut and cavill than till his part fell he Fra Clyde [etc.]; Stewart 1350. Sua that ilk ane ... may have and sett thair parte ... be cutt or casting of cavillis; 1578 Glasgow Chart. II. 559. My oyis ... till haif the ane half of the foirsaid ten merkland as sall fall to thame at the ane end be thair cut or cavill; 1582 Edinb. Test. X. 325. Six butts in Coatburne ... qwhich fell by cutt and cavell to him; 1683 Melrose R. Rec. III. 8.
(2) Thai ... cuttis caste quha suld begyne; & the cuttis thane serwit swa Til ilkane cane vthir sla; Leg. S. vii. 508. Ane of thaim, as cut wald fal, His owk a-bout suld serue al; Ib. xxxvi. 35. Thai his clething partis with cuttis syne, As the propheit ... had said: My claithis ar partit and thaim cuttis laid; Kennedy Pass. Christ 810. The thre granyt ceptour wand, Quhilk is by cut gevin me to beir in hand; Doug. i. iii. 74. By kuttis than ... Thar place thai cheysyt; Ib. v. iii. 57. Having drawin cuttis quha suld begin first, it fell to the said Dauid to begyn first; 1590 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 70.
DSL - DOST Cut, Cutt, n.2 Also: cute, cuit. [e.m.E. cut, cutte (1530), f. the verb.]
1. A length or piece of timber obtained by cutting a larger piece, beam, or tree.
ij cuttis of esche for extreis to the hurle cartis; 1530 M. Works Acc. I. 33 b. The cuttis of the lang gestis that ves ... cuttit for gestis to the roundis; Ib. 44. For sawing of cuttis of grete tymmer; 1552-3 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 14. For ane cut of ane greit tre to tow the pais cords of the knok; 1554-5 Ib. I. 139. Ane hale cut of ane wanescot to be the heid to the chyre; 1568 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 6. For sawing of tua cuttis of aikin tymmer to be standartis to the letteroun; 1582 Ib. 121. Certane cuitis of daillis & treis to the number xl; 1610 Brechin Test. II. 69 b. Two window brods and two cutts of dealls therin; 1653 Soc. Ant. XXIII. 305. Six thousand dealles and cuttes of dealles; 1681 Blackness Customs 43 b.
b. Used to designate a small piece of wood.
They saw ... the Captan, with a lytle cut of a staff in his hand, takin doun ower the wall; Melvill 34.
2. A length of cloth cut from a web.
Twa cuttis of Holland clayth; 1568 Edinb. Test. I. 99 b. Ten cuttis of lynning claith contenand all xviij scoir elnis; 1582 Ib. X. 307 b. Ane cute of armosie taffattie contening xiij elnis; 1591 Ib. XXIII. 50. Thre cuitis of gray & blew claytht extending to iij elnis; 1610 Brechin Test. III. 105. I have sent yow a litle cutt of my Inchtoothill linnen to be your morning aprons; c 1697 Wemyss Corr. 158.
3. A quantity of yarn, containing 120 rounds of the reel.
Such yairne as they sall find ... that does not contein the iust number of threids in euerie cutt ... to confiscatt the samin; 1624 Conv. Burghs III. 157. Tua cuttis and sume yeirne and tua single pleydes; 1629 Stirling B. Rec. I. 163. Ane great part of the said yairne daylie brought to the said mercate comes short of the just tale therof, wanting a great many threads of six score to the cutt; 1703 Ib. II. 103.
4. A cross-section of a fish.
She ... delyverit to him in a cloute four cuttis of salmond; 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I. 106.
DSL - DOST Cut, Cutt, v. Also: cwt(t, cot, cout, cute, cuit. P. t. cuttyt, -it, -et, -ed, cowt. P. p. cut(t)it, cutted, cut(t, kut, cuttine. [Early ME. cutte, kutte, cute, of obscure origin.]
1. tr. To cut, sever by cutting, in various applications.
(1) Scho ... with a schere gert cut hir hare; Leg. S. xxx. 398. Dyocliciane ... gert sone cute his nek in twa; Ib. xlvi. 149. His houch senons thai cuttyt in that pres; Wall. i. 322. To cutt his throit, or steik hym sodanlye; Ib. 197. Amang thaim is bot tak and sla, Cut thropillis and mak quyte; Crying of Play 124. Thai cuttit his hede fra his body; Compl. 120/18. That na maner of flescheouris ... that bringis flesche thairto cut nor slit ony mwtun in the schulderis nor vther pairtis; 1551 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 161. The said Johne ... cowt bayth my luggs and my nyse with the same sword; 1558 Inverness B. Rec. I. 26. In the Cannowgait ... they cuttit ane of his vanes and causit him bleid to dead; Leslie 43. Traittouris ... wald burne thair hous ... or ellis ... wald cuit thair throttis; Pitsc. I. 30/4. The Frinchemen will cout 
our thrott; Ib. II. 154/30. His heid was cutted and clouen into four quarteris; Dalr. II. 239/28.
(2) Quhar mony man Cuttyt cordys, gart mony tentis fall; Wall. x. 637. Ane akyn tre, ... [with] The branchis sned and kut abowt alquhar; Doug. xi. i. 16. Ald treis cuttit afore burgeonit and flurist; Boece ix. i. 288. Takkand to erd our ... houssis, cuttand the samin with hewin axis; 1557 Peebles B. Rec. 239. The gairdnar ... Cuttit the auld, and leit the oung tre stand still; Rolland Seven S. 1529. The maister gounar ... cuttit the quhellis and axtrie of his gone that he was schottand; Pitsc. II. 99/11. Thai ... cuttet his tikket and ordanis his name to be deleitt furth of thair gild buik; 1598 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 218. It is demandit ... quhy the samyne [charter] was not cuttit and cancellat iff he acceptit ane new ane; 1626 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 296. That nane ... sall baik ony kind of wastellis or caikis to be cuttit in four quarteris; 1650 St. A. Baxter Bks. 120.
(3) To schaw thare face, and cut thare gownis; Lynd. Syde Tailis 154. All vther merchandice that is to be mesurit with elne to be sawld in steiks and nocht cuttit; 1546 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 125. Thrie elnis of veluot cuttit in bordoring; 1583 Edinb. Test. XII. 355 b. Ane clok of blak durato all cuttit in bandis; 1638 Rep. Elphinstone Mun. 26.
(4) fig. Than [thou may se] the catholick fayth to be cuttit and diuydit; Winet II. 65/29. Maist kyndis of versis quhilks are not cuttit or brokin, bot alyke many feit in euerie lyne of the verse; James VI Ess. 55. Cwtt and carve as ow find expedient; 1634 Maxwell Mem. II. 251.
b. fig. To shorten as by cutting.
The gled is deith, that cummis suddandlie, ... and cuttis sone the battall; Henr. Fab. 2934. To cut the winter nicht and mak it schort I tuik an quair; Id. Test. Cress. 39. He began to array his batallis to cutt & drive our the tyme; Bell. Livy I. 64/17.
2. To cut (wood, grain, etc.) for use.
Quhatsumeuir thai be ... that scheris or cottis ... our wekeris that growis ... about the town; 1475 Peebles B. Rec. 174. Thare is diuers personis quhilkis ... cuttis the woddis; 1518 Glenartney MS. Doc. Alex. Ros ... grantit in jugement that he cuttit thwa startis to ane mylln quhyll; 1547 Elgin Rec. I. 90. Geve ony persone beis fundin cherand or cwttand gres vpone the balkis; 1551 Ann. Banff I. 28. Allegeing the woddis ... continuallie cuttit, pelit and distroiit be the travelloris vpon the said loucht; 1563 Grant Chart. 128. The deponar ... cuttit sum threttene or fourtene caberis; 1627 Peebles Gleanings 158. They appoynt ... James Fergisoune to cognosche vpon the loisses of this toune by cornes cuttine and plunderit; 1645 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 89. Laitly ther hes bein cuttit ... great quantities of bent for wses of the houses and others; 1658 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 176.
3. To cut surgically; to operate on.
[The] regent lay deidlie seik of rumburssanes, and war nocht he wes cuttit he haid lost the lyff; Diurn. Occurr. 321. I ... being hevelie vext with ane confermit stane and ... myndfull for remedie thairof to be schorne & cuttit; 1582 Edinb. Test. XI. 33. The grievousness of his gravell, ... made him goe to France to be cutted; 1639 Baillie I. 212. To pay yearlie to Evir M`Neill, that cutis the stones, ane hundreth markis Scotis, and he to cut all the poor for that frielie; 1661 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 460.
4. With adverbs, as away, by, doun, off, out.
(1) Sa is the suerd of knychthede ordanyt to kutt away ... ronnis of thornis of euill men; Hay II. 28/33. Quhar hir pap was for the speir cut away; Doug. i. vii. 132. All errour and abuse being cuttit away; Winet I. 66/24. 
it cuttit I away their worldly strenth; 1571 Sat. P. xxviii. 153. They could on nawayis gett thair intent ... without they had the Duik of Albanie cutit away; Pitsc. I. 184/4.
(2) Bot weill he knew he culd thame all defy, King Caratac sua that he culd cut by; Stewart 6744.
(3) As the hewing ax is ordanyt to cutt doune treis; Hay II. 28/30. He ... past vp and doune his gardyng vitht his staf cuttand doune the hie chasbollis; Compl. 94/20. Maist lyke ane branche doun cuttit of ane stok; Lauder Minor P. i. 97.
(4) Alson as he come hame ... he cuttit baith hir palpis of; Asl. MS. I. 200/26. The Uicar of Dolour ... and mony ma, quha ... war cuttit of be the fyre; Pref. Lyndesay 7. Gif hie war cuttit of, the contrie sould be at greatter tranquilietie; Pitsc. I. 46/15. He cutted off the bill abone; 1583 Sempill Sat. P. xlv. 213. Heather ... Cutted off in the cruik of the moone; Ib. 306. Tha say that [to Marie] with Ingland was cuttit off al hope of barnes; Dalr. II. 394/5.
(5) Of his habite out cuttit thay ane skreid; Doug. Conscience 7. Ane burd of aik the claith wes cutit out one; 1548 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 260. Twa auld skin coittis cuttit out; 1568 Edinb. Test. I. 188 b.
DSL - DOST Cut, ppl. a. Also: cutt, cwt(t, cout, cute, cuit. [f. the verb. Cf. [CUTTIT].] Subjected to cutting, in various applications. Also with out.
(1) Ane born and twa cwtt rudis of land; 1531 Glasgow Prot. IV. 40. Twa ryggis and ane cwt ryg, lyand in the sayd croft; 1535 Ib. 77. The cut rig lande lyand in Langcroft; 1561 Ib. III. 2.
(2) Ane pund wecht of cut threid; 1583 Edinb. Test. XIII. 44 b. Ane naipkine of quhyt holland cloth, wroght in cutt work with gold and silk; 1632 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. ???. 235. My cout diamont ring ... and the ring with the sayx diamonts; 1644 11th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. vi. 56. Ane cout out stuff dublet; 1692 Pr. Inchmahome 158.
(3) Certane rew and cuit towbacco; 1637 Edinb. Test. LVIII. 243. Ane hundreth and aucht pund weycht ... of cutt and dry tobaccoe; 1643 Ib. LX. 239 b. xlviij pund wecht of cute & dry commone tobacoe; 1646 Ib. LXLI. 75 b.
ellipt. For ane pund cutt and dry and 3 dozen pypes; 1652 Stirling B. Rec. II. 314.
DSL - SND1 CUT, v. Used as in Eng. The following forms and meanings are peculiar to Sc.
I. Sc. forms.
1. pa.t. cutted, cuttit (Cai.7, Bnff.2, Abd.2, Fif.10, Lnk.111941). [
k
tIt]
*Abd. 1768 A. Ross Helenore 24:
With his ain hand he cutted aff an' gae, An' eated wi' her, an' gar'd her do sae.
*Edb. [1893] W. G. Stevenson Wee Johnnie Paterson, etc. (1914) 184:
But David jist ran awa' roond an' got oot his sword an' cuttit aff his heid.
*Ayr. 1821 Galt Ayrshire Legatees v.:
A pocket-picker, as I thought, cutted off the tail of my coat.
2. ppl.adj. and pa.p. cuttit, cutted, cuttet, cuttid (Bnff.2, Abd.27 (cuttit), Lnk.11, Kcb.1 (cutted) 1941). Also cutten (rare).
*Ork.(D) 1880 Dennison Sketch Bk. 12:
An' abeun de yett wus a bonnie square free-steen wi' letters cuttid on him.
*Cai.(D) 1909 D. Houston + 'E Silkie Man 4:
He cam' doon a blin' fowg at ye could hev cutten wi' a knife.
*Abd.4 1929:
``A sheeve aff o' a cuttit loaf's never miss't.'' (Retort by a ploughman if caught kissing another man's sweetheart.)
*Fif. 1896 ``G. Setoun'' R. Urquhart xix.:
Ye've cuttet your head on your skates.
*e.Dmf. 1894 J. Cunningham Broomieburn 59:
I canna pray the nicht for I've a cuttit thoomb.
II. Sc. meanings.
1. In the game of handball as played in the Border Counties: to put the ball in the river to score a cut (Rxb. 1941 (per Lnk.11)).
*Rxb. 1932 Jedburgh Celebrations in Scotsman (4 Feb.):
The third ball was ``cut'' in the river for the ``Doonies'' by Adam Watson.
2. ``To tack from side to side up an inclined plane; to move a heavy object forward by pushing each end alternately'' (Uls. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gl. Ant. and Dwn.).
3. Phrs.: (1) cutting loaf, a loaf at least one day old and hence more easily cut (Cai.7, Abd.26 1941; Per. 1915 Wilson L. Strathearn 241; Fif.13, Arg.1, Gsw.1, Kcb.11941); (2) to be cuttin' o' hunger, to be very hungry (Cai.7 1941); (3) to cut before the point, to anticipate (Kcb.10 1941); (4) to cut the churn, see [KIRN], n.2; (5) to cut (someone's) girds, to make (someone's) position insecure; (6) to cut the hare, see [HARE], n.2; (7) to cut harrows, ``to cease being on speaking terms'' (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.; Rxb. 1941 (per Lnk.11)); cf. to draw the cat-harrow s.v. [CAT HARROW]; (8) to cut the King's langitch, to speak (Bnff.2 1941); (9) to cut meat, to eat; (10) to cut off, to excommunicate (Bnff.2 1941), found in vbl.n. cutting off, excommunication; (11) to cut out, to cut off (Sc. 1782 J. Sinclair Ob. Sc. Dial. 22; Fif.10 1941); (12) to cut the (one's) wind, (a) a term expressive of extreme hunger; (b) to make (a person) short of breath; (13) to cut one's wizzen, = (12) (b); (14) to stand good cuttin', to last well.
(2) *Ags. 1892 F. F. Angus Susie xv.:
I'm sure you are fair cuttin' o' hunger.
(3) *Bch. 1898 J. R. Imray Sandy Todd vii.:
I'm some dootin' we hae baith been cuttin' afore the p'int in thinkin' they war merrit.
*m.Lth. 1844 J. Ballantine Miller of Deanhaugh 147:
``I took the workshop from Mr. Cauldwell yesterday.'' ``Indeed! Ah! that was cutting before the point,'' said the miller.
*Ayr. 1822 Galt Sir A. Wylie II. xi.:
``Your grace,'' cried Andrew, interrupting her, ``is cutting far before the point.''
(5) *Ags. 1815 Montrose Review (5 May) 142/1:
The first thing he did was to do all he could to cut his [opponent's] girds.
(7) *Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.:
Him an' me's cut harrows.
(8) *Ags. 1853 W. Blair Chron. of Aberbrothock xxii.:
Gif ony ane offendit `m he wadna cut the King's langitch wi' them for months an' years to cum.
(9) *Uls. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gl. Ant. and Dwn.:
``They never cut meat from Saturday till Wednesday'': said of a lot of sheep which were in transit from Ireland to England.
(10) *Rnf. 1871 D. Gilmour ``Pen'' Folk (1873) 45:
Cases of separation from fellowship, or ``cutting off,'' were to me at all times alike fascinating and painful.
(11) *Sc. 1825 J. Mitchell Scotsman's Library 361:
I have cut out my hair, and got a wig.
(12) (a)
*Mry.11925:
I'm like tae cut the wind wi' hunger.
(b)
*Lnk.111941:
A trombone player: ``I never smoke in the intervals; it aye cuts my wind.'' Used also of a bad cough.
(13) *Dmb. 1777 Weekly Mag. (3 July) 20:
For a' the gait be scarce twa tether length, It cuts my wizzen sair an' bangs my strength.
(14) *Ant. 1898 E.D.D.:
That bag o' meal has stood good cuttin'.
4. Combs.: (1) cut chain, ``a chain used on inclines, which may be cut at different places, to suit various levels'' (Sc. 1886 J. Barrowman Sc. Mining Terms 22); (2) cut chain brae, ``an incline on which cut chains are used'' (Ib.); (3) cut coal, ``in stoop-and-room working, coal cut on two sides where two rooms at right angles to each other meet'' (Ib.); (4) cut-finger'd (-'t), 
(a) ``a ludicrous term, applied to one who gives a short answer, or replies with some degree of acrimony'' (Rxb. 1825 Jam.2; 1923 Watson W.-B., obsol.); 
(b) ``applied also to one who leaves a company abruptly, or makes what is termed a stown jouk'' (Ib.); (5) cut-luggit, -ed, cutt logged, crop-eared; (6) cutlugs, a crop-eared horse; (7) cut-throat, (a) ``a dark lantern or bowet, in which there is generally horn instead of glass; but so constructed that the light may be completely obscured, when this is found necessary for the perpetration of any criminal act'' (Sc. 1825 Jam.2; Frf. 1738 Valuation (per Fif.1)); only ref. in Eng. is Bailey, 1783 (N.E.D.); (b) a kind of sweet (Bnff.9 c.1927); (8) cut-worm, a grub which attacks the roots of plants; a cabbage-root grub (Sc. 1808 Jam.); also fig.
(4) (b)
*Rxb. 1825 Jam.2:
He's gane away unco cut-finger't-wise.
(5) *Sc. c.1700 P. Birnie in R. Ford Vagab. Songs, etc. (1904) 281:
She [mare] was cut-luggit, painch-lippit, Steel-wamet, stauncher-fittit.
*Sc. 1815 Scott Guy M. (1817) xxxvi.:
A muckle great saucer-headed cutlugged stane, that they ca' Charlies Chuckie.
*Rnf. 1724 W. Hector Judicial Records (1876-78) I. 225:
The said Defer [defender] hath stollen . . . ane young bull-dogg, black mouthed, cutt logged and cutt tayled.
*Slk. 1818 Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck, etc. II. 186:
Whar ir ye gaun sae early i' the morning on that grand cut-luggit beast?
(6) *Peb. 1715 A. Pennicuik Descr. of Tweeddale and Sc. Poems 22:
Kind Calins with his Cutlugs, next appears. [He rode a cutlugged horse.]
(7) (b)
*Edb. 1828 D. Moir Mansie Wauch (1839) iv.:
The thrums were a perquisite of my own, which I niffered with the gundy-wife for Gibraltar rock, cut-throat, gib, or bull's eyes.
(8) *Sc. 1775 Weekly Mag. (2 Feb.) 169:
The cut-worm, that in some seasons destroys the oats very much in this country.
*Rnf. 1850 A. McGilvray Poems 160:
Those vile cut-worms [infidels] to kirk and State.
[The above meanings are mostly extensions of Eng. cut, v.; cut-luggit, 1614, and cut-thro(a)t, a dark lantern, 1668, appear in O.Sc. (D.O.S.T.).]
DSL - SND1 CUT, n.1 Also cutt. Used as in Eng. The following meanings are peculiar to Sc.
1. (1) A certain quantity of woollen or linen yarn; also in n.Eng. dial. (E.D.D.). A cut of woollen yarn was 91 inches. Obs. exc. hist.
*Sc. 1928 A. Stewart Highland Parish 172:
When engaging maids it was a common practice for farmers to enquire if they could complete the standard task of a dozen cuts of lint per day.
*Bnff. 1761 W. Cramond Ann. of Cullen (1888) 104:
Margaret Murray imprisoned for selling yarn ``very ill told and deficient in some of the cuts.''
*Abd.(D) 1915 H. Beaton Back o' Benachie 19:
After being twined, it was taken to the ``yarnell.'' When that machine gave a click, that meant a cut was accomplished.
*Rxb. 1795 Stat. Acc.1 II. 308:
A stone of the finest of it [wool] . . . will yield 32 slips of yarn, each containing 12 cuts, and each cut being 120 rounds of the legal reel.
(2) A skein of wool, gen. of four ounces weight (Bnff.2, Abd.9, Ags.2, Fif.10, Slg.3, Lnk.11, Kcb.11941). Cf. [HANK].
*Abd.29 1947:
My mother tells me that fifty years ago or so women used to get sixpence per cut for knitting socks.
(3) A term used in spinning to indicate the grist or thickness of woollen yarn (see quot. and cf. Galashiels cut s.v. [GALASHIELS]).
*Sc. 1947 A. Sharp (Patons and Baldwin Ltd.) in Letter (27 Jan.):
A one cut woollen yarn means one hank of yarn measuring 300 yards weighing 24 ounces. A two cut yarn would be two hanks each measuring 300 yards weighing together 24 ounces, and so on.
2. Temper (Bnff.2, Abd.9, Ags.17, Fif.13, Kcb.10 1941).
*Abd. 1928 N. Shepherd Quarry Wood 18:
She's terrible short i' the cut.
*Ags. 1927 (per Ags.9):
The auld man's in an ill cut the day.
3. ``A lot or piece of ground, as `a cut of turnips or potatoes''' (Uls.2 1929); ``the pasture-ground which a sheep adopts'' (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.). Cf. U.S.A. cut, a cultivated field or portion of one (D.A.E.).
4. ``A pack or lot of sheep or lambs, especially as allocated to a particular pasture'' (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.). Also found in Nhb. dial. (E.D.D.).
*Bnff.2 1941:
When a flock of sheep are being sold by auction, any given number separated from the rest at random is called a ``cut.''
*Rxb. 1914 Kelso Chron. (11 Dec.) 4/1:
A shepherd coming to a new place, of course, at first has to become acquainted with how the sheep go in cuts, and what ground each cut pastures over each day.
5. ``A score (ranking less than a [HAIL]) gained by cutting the handball in the river opposite the goal'' (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.). Known to Lnk.111941 for Rxb.
*Rxb. 1909 Jedburgh Gazette (5 Feb.) 3/3:
Result of the day's play --- Uppies, three hails; Doonies, one hail, one cut.
6. (See quot.) Phs. abbrev. of Eng. cutting.
*Mearns 1813 G. Robertson Agric. Kcd. 278:
The plants or cuts [of potatoes] are dropt in at a distance of nine or ten inches in the rows.
7. ``The open side. In longwall working, one face in advance of another gives it cut'' (Sc. 1886 J. Barrowman Sc. Mining Terms 22).
Comb.: cut shot, ``a shot designed to bring down coal which has been sheared or opened up on one side'' (Ib.).
8. In pl.: (1) ``the iron mountings on a swingle-tree'' (Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 156, cutts; Kcb.10 1941); (2) the clevis of a plough (Kcb.10 1943).
9. In phrs.: (1) a cut of a man, ``a sturdy middle-sized man'' (Cai.8 1934; Cai.7, Bnff.2 1941); (2) cut-an-dry, ellipt. for cut and dried tobacco (Bnff.2, Abd.9 1941); last quot. in N.E.D. a.1735.
(2) *Rnf. a.1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1817) 220:
There'll be plenty of pipe, and a glorious supply Of the good sneesh-te-bacht, and the fine cut-an-dry.
[Cut, a quantity of yarn, containing 120 rounds of the reel, appears in O.Sc. from 1624 (D.O.S.T.).]
DSL - SND1 CUT, n.2 Appetite.
*Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff. 35:
The herd-loon hiz a gey gueede cut.
*Bnff.2 1941:
He has a gweed cut ony wye, for he has clawed oot a hale basin o' taatie-soop.
Comb.: cut-pock, gut-, cut-pyock, ``properly the stomach of a fish'' (n.Sc. 1808 Jam., cutpock); the stomach (Bnff. 1866 Gregor D. Bnff. 35, cut-pyock; Bnff.8 1929, gut-).
*Abd. [1768] A. Ross Helenore (1778) 72:
Poor Bydby's wond'ring at ilk thing she saw, But wi' a hungry cut-pock for it a'. [1812 ed. has gutpock.]
[Variant of gut, vulgarly applied to the stomach as the seat of the appetite. For the interchange of c and g, cf. [CLAM] and glam s.v. [GLAUM], v.1, [CAMRELL] and [GAMMEREL], etc.]
DSL - SNDS CUT, v. II. 3. Phrs. Add: cuttin the beef, the fast turning of a skipping rope (Abd. 1949).
4. (6) Add: Phr. ca me cutlugs if . . ., used asseveratively = Eng. `I'm a Dutchman' (Fif. 1960). Cf. n.Eng. dial. cutlugs, a soubriquet for the Devil or a donkey.
*Fif. 1975:
Caa me cutlugs gif that's no him = If that isn't him, I'm a Dutchman.
Add: cut-meat, see quot.
*Sc. 1814 Farmer's Mag. (Aug.) 326:
In some districts, they cut oats in the straw, into a species of fodder, which they call ``cut-meat.'' That is given not only to horses, but to cattle, especially fatting cattle.
DSL - SNDS CUT, n.1 1. (1) Defin. Read: A certain quantity of woollen or linen yarn, gen. 120 rounds of a 93 in. reel, i.e. 300 ells or 310 yards. Gen.Sc.
*Sc. 1721 Rec. Conv. Royal Burghs (1885) 273:
The short reel be one quarter long, one eln about, have six score threeds in every cut, three cuts to the hank, and eight hanks in the spindle.
*Abd. 1889 Bon-Accord (9 Feb.) 21:
About 40 spindles of Strong 4-Ply Fingering Worsted to be sold at 2d per cut.
*Sc. 1896 Fleming Reid & Co. Price List 5:
Our Wools are retailed in England by Weight, and in Scotland by ``Cut.'' There are 120 threads to a ``Cut.''
*Sc. 1949 Sample Cardfrom Messrs Tulloch, Lerwick:
The price is 3/- per cut post free. (A cut is a measure of 300 yards but it weighs approx. two ounces.)
(2) should be omitted and Abd.29 1947 quot. transferred to (1). (3) should be renumbered (2). Add: (3) A section of a haddock line, a quarter of the total, of 60 fathoms length (Mry. 1933).
DSL - SNDS2 CUT, v. II. 3. Add Comb.: cuttin breid, = cuttin loaf (Bnff., Edb., Ayr., Dmf. 2000s).
II. 3. (1) Add to defin.: (Ags., Uls. 1990s).