"breadcutter" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: breadcutters [plural]
Etymology: From bread + cutter. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|bread|cutter}} bread + cutter Head templates: {{en-noun}} breadcutter (plural breadcutters)
  1. A device for cutting bread, often consisting of a platform and a hinged blade.
    Sense id: en-breadcutter-en-noun-4Kkw8H18 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 90 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 94 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 96 4
  2. A person employed to cut bread.
    Sense id: en-breadcutter-en-noun-sN3psdOp
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: breadcutter choke

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XI, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:",
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          "text": "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,\nHe 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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