canecutter

or cane cut·ter

[ keyn-kuht-er ]

noun

1. any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of canecutter¹

1835–45, Americanism, for earlier sense; cane + cutter

Example Sentences

In Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, he played a middle-aging bull of a canecutter foreman who loses his job and his virile stud appeal at about the same time.

From Time Magazine Archive