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Table-cut. World English Historical Dictionary

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Table-cut. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Table-cut a. (sb.) [f. TABLE sb., used adverbially + CUT ppl. a. or sb.2] Of a diamond or other precious stone: Cut in the form of a ‘table’: see TABLE sb. 18 and TABLE DIAMOND.

1 1688.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2320/4. Lost…, a Diamond Ring, Table Cut. Ibid. (1704), No. 4046/4. 8 Rings, one a Diamond with 7 Stones, Table-cut.

2 1905.  A. Lang, in Longm. Mag., April, 566. I could not tell what stones the table-cut stones were.

3   b.  sb. The style of cutting a precious stone as described in A.

4 1891.  in Cent. Dict.

5   So Table-cutter, a lapidary who cuts precious stones in ‘tables’; Table-cutting = B.

6 1877.  E. W. Streeter, Precious Stones, iv. 23. A little later [than 1373] the so-called ‘table-cutters’ at Nürnberg, and all other stone-engravers, formed themselves into a guild.

7 1877.  Knight, Dict. Mech., 2478/1. Table-cutting is adopted with flat thin gems, which have not sufficient protuberance to be cut as rose diamonds or brilliants.

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