Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CUT'-WA-TER
CUT'TLE, or CUT'TLE-FISHCUT'-WORK
CUT'-WA-TER, n.
The fore part of a ship's prow, or knee of the head, which cuts the water. Also, a water-fowl, a species of gull; or rather, the Rhyncops, or razor-bill.
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