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noun

Cut-out n.

(a)

(Telegraphy) A species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.

(b)

(Elec.) A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.

Something cut out from another object, especially a piece of thick paper or cardboard with a picture on it (as of a person or other object), embedded in a larger sheet of paper and having perforations around the edges of the figure to allow easy removal from the larger sheet.

A valve in the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine which, when activated, permits the exhaust gases to bypass the muffler.

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Etymology of 'Cut-out'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cut-out" Quotes from Famous Books

... enemies, his victims. Together with the thrilling narrative of how he foiled, baffled, circumvented and triumphed over everything and everybody (except where he failed) and how even when he failed he succeeded. The whole recorded in a series of screams and told with neither muffler nor cut-out. ...

— Tom Slade on a Transport • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... they had eaten their supper together, and had seated themselves before the fire, and when the whirl and whistle of the wind was heard in the mad music of a river storm, a motorboat with its cut-out open ploughed up the river through the dead eddy ...

— The River Prophet • Raymond S. Spears

... man, who had been a raftsman on the Delaware, to go with me by land up to the mill, for a few thousand feet of boards, that I required for my new house. It was only seven miles to the mill by a new cut-out sleigh-track, through the township of Goderich as far as the Falls, which we crossed by wading the river just above them, which at that time we were able to do, though not without some caution; for, although the spring-floods were considerably abated, the water ...

— Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West - The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) • Samuel Strickland

... sprang noiselessly to the door, replaced the cut-out panels and secured them in position, against anything but a blow or strong pressure, by two or three sharp nails pressed in with his fingers. Flight was out of the question, but it might be possible to make good their escape later on if they ...

— Two Daring Young Patriots - or, Outwitting the Huns • W. P. Shervill

... and leap to the driver's seat required but a moment. The big car moved smoothly forward. A turn of the steering wheel brought it around headed toward the wide gates. Barney shifted to second speed, stepped on the accelerator and the cut-out simultaneously, and with a noise like the rattle of a machine gun, shot out ...

— The Mad King • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... half-past four when a sound struck on her ears, a loud and trembling chord, a buzz, the rattle of a "cut-out." The blessed noises drew near. They were certainly in the little by-road which led to the house. They ceased. She did not move, but sat where she was with a ...

— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens