[f. CORK sb.1 + CUT v.]
1. One whose occupation is to cut cork into stoppers for bottles, bungs, etc.
1709. Lond. Gaz., No. 4574/4. Felix Oneall, Cork-Cutter.
1836–9. Dickens, Sk. Boz (1850), 181/2. Her deceased better-half had been an eminent cork-cutter.
2. An instrument or machine for cutting corks.
So Cork-cutting vbl. sb.
1756. Toldervy, Two Orphans, IV. 101. Many of the inhabitants, who were of the cork-cutting profession.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, I. 952. In the art of cork-cutting the French surpass the English.
