2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
||Cut"wal (kŭt"w&add;l), n. [Per. kotwāl.] The chief police officer of a large city. [East Indies]
Cut"wa`ter (kŭt"w&add;`t&etilde;r), n. (Naut.) 1. The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.
2. A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.
3. (Zo÷l.) A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.
Cut"work` (kŭt"wűrk`), n. (Fine Arts) An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.
Cut"worm` (-w?rm`), n. (Zo÷l.) A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvŠ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.
||Cu*vette" (k?-w?t"), n. [F., dim. of cuve a tub.]
1. A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.