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cutting down

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cutting down [′kəd·iŋ ′dau̇n]
(mechanical engineering)
Removing surface roughness or irregularities from metal by the use of an abrasive.


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I think there has not been so much on a cricket match since the day when Sir Horace Mann walked about Broad Ha'penny agitatedly cutting down the daisies with his stick.
What did the Man do but fix it into the axe head, and soon set to work cutting down tree after tree.
The Abyssins report that this tree when it is cut down groans like a man, and, on this account, call cutting down an ensete killing it.
 
 
 
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