† cut-waistn.
Obsolete.
An insect, esp. one with the division between thorax and abdomen deeply cut.
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cut-waist1608
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 94 Wilde Hornets..liue in the hollow trunkes and cauities of trees, there keeping themselues close all the winter long, as other Cut-wasts do.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 261 The Butter-flye, or any other cut-wast.
Derivatives
ˈcut-waisted adj.
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cut-waisted1577
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. vi. ii. 36 The cut wasted (for so I English the word Insecta) are the hornets, waspes, bees, and such like.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 65 A Bee is a cut-wasted liuing creature.
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