cuttle

¹ American  

[kuht-l] / ˈkʌt l /

noun

1. cuttlefish.

2. cuttlebone.

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cuttle ² American  

[kuht-l] / ˈkʌt l /

verb (used with object)

Textiles.

cuttled, cuttling

1. to fold (cloth) face to face after finishing.

2. to allow (cloth) to lie without further treatment after fulling, milling, scouring, etc.

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cuttle British  

/ ˈkʌtəl /

noun

1. short for cuttlefish cuttlebone

2. a small cuttlefish, Sepiola atlantica, often found on beaches

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Etymology

Origin of cuttle¹

before 1000; late Middle English codel, Old English cudele (replaced in the 16th century by cuttlefish and subsequently reshortened)

Origin of cuttle²

First recorded in 1535–45; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

The squid or cuttle, herrings, caplin, any meat, or even a false fish of bright tin or pewter.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Sometimes ink was made of the cuttle fish or from lees of wine.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff

And would your spell Be daunting to a cuttle, think you now?

From Georgian Poetry 1911-12 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

The animals of the North American Indians are represented as stealing fire sometimes from the cuttle fish and sometimes from one another.

From Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina by Westervelt, W. D.

Their ink was sometimes composed of a black liquid emitted by the cuttle fish.

From Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) by Dillaway, Charles K.