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🔪 Cutting downward 🛠️ A cutting tool ✂️ To cut downward 🌊 To erode downward
downcut

downcut

7.7
A tool that cuts downward to pull small pieces down and leave a clean top surface
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : fresa de corte descendente
  • Switching to a downcut helped prevent splintering along the edges of the plywood.

Examples

  • The woodworker used a downcut to achieve a smooth finish on the tabletop.

  • For a clean top surface, the technician recommended a downcut over other types of bits.

  • The carpenter used a downcut bit for the project.

  • A downcut helps achieve a clean edge.

  • The woodworker used a downcut to achieve a smooth finish on the tabletop.

  • Switching to a downcut helped prevent splintering along the edges of the plywood.

  • For a clean top surface, the technician recommended a downcut over other types of bits.

Antonyms

upcut
  • Specialized
7.9

A blade or tool that lifts small pieces up as it cuts

Surface Forms

downcut singular
downcuts plural

Morphology

downcut = cut (transparent) = down + cut

The noun sense names a tool by the direction of its cutting action: 'down-' + 'cut' = a bit that cuts downward.

Etymology

Downcut is the name for a tool that cuts downward, built from down meaning 'downward' and cut meaning 'to cut'. So a downcut bit pulls chips down to give a clean top surface.