sidecutn.
/ˈsʌɪdkʌt/, U.S. /ˈsaɪdˌkət/ 1. A small lateral canal leading away from a larger canal or other waterway. Cf. cut n.2 21a. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > navigable waterway > canal > types of canal
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1722 D. Baker Let. 17 Nov. in T. S. Willan Early Hist. Don Navigation (1965) 49 When the waters drained from Bentley and Arksey into the cut come in greater quantity than usual, that the cut can't contain them, they are to be carryed off by a side cutt and discharged into the river a little above the lower floodgate.
1767 Scots Mag. May 252/1 The proprietors..shall be impowered..to make a side-cut from such place of the large canal to Glasgow, as engineers..shall judge to be easiest in point of execution.
1805 Z. Allnutt Considerations on Navigation Thames 24 The Number of Side-cuts, Pound-locks, and Weirs, that may be required.
1849 Jrnl. Senate 2nd Regular Session Gen. Assembly State of Iowa App. 343 Low banks and other impediments precluded the possibility of dams, and we were forced to the expedient of a side cut, or canal.
1936 Newark (Ohio) Advocate & Amer. Tribune 6 June 3/3 This side cut has been useless for the purposes of navigation for many years.
2002 A. W. Skempton Biogr. Dict. Civil Engineers I. 366/1 The company's very first side cut with locks was finished at Sawley by 1793.
2. Oil Industry. = sidestream n. 2.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > distilled or refined mineral oils > fraction drawn off at intermediate tray
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1931 U.S. Patent 1,824,947 4/2 Apparatus for separating sharp boiling point fractions from products of cracking petroleum oil, comprising..a first rectifying column.., means for taking top, bottom and side cuts from said first rectifying column.
1970 W. G. Roberts Quest for Oil viii. 85 At the point where we wish to draw off side-cuts or intermediate fractions, special trays are put in.
2014 J. G. Speight High Acid Crudes iv. 80 Testing the whole crude and the side cuts shows where the different naphthenic acids will distill.
3. In skiing and snowboarding: a (usually inward) curve in one or both sides of a ski or snowboard, designed to allow it to turn more smoothly and easily; the degree or amount of curvature of this kind.
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1966 Skiing Oct. 61/2 The physical properties of skis: length, width, side cut, thickness, weight, camber, flex, flex curve, edges, groove, and bottom profile.
1981 Ski Late Winter 22/3 The Backyard Snowboard..is longer and a lot wider, with a pronounced sidecut like a ski.
1990 Snow Boarder Sept. 34/3 The T-Max is equipped with a deep sidecut for big carves and..wrapped edges to eliminate chatter at high speeds.
2014 B. Conners & B. Miller Climbing & Skiing Colorado's Mountains 6 These skis are incredibly solid and..boast a wide waist with plenty of sidecut.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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