cuttle

cuttle
cuttle1
/kut"l/, n.
1. cuttlefish.
2. cuttlebone.
[bef. 1000; late ME codel, OE cudele (replaced in the 16th century by CUTTLEFISH and subsequently reshortened)]
cuttle2
/kut"l/, v.t., cuttled, cuttling. Textiles.
1. to fold (cloth) face to face after finishing.
2. to allow (cloth) to lie without further treatment after fulling, milling, scouring, etc.
[1535-45; orig. uncert.]

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