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🎮 A crafting block 🪨 A stone worker 🛠️ A cutting tool
stonecutter

stonecutter

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A Minecraft block used to cut stone into decorative blocks
  • noun
  • Jargon
translation icon : cortadora de piedra

Examples

  • Stonecutter, if you please.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • In Minecraft, players use a stonecutter to craft various decorative stone blocks.

  • The stonecutter is an essential tool for creating beautiful structures in Minecraft.

  • With the stonecutter, you can easily convert stone into stairs and slabs.

Surface Forms

stonecutter singular
stonecutters plural

Morphology

stonecutter = stone + cutter (transparent) = stone + cut + er

In the game the block's name directly describes its function of cutting/converting stone, matching the compound 'stone' + 'cutter'.

Etymology

Stonecutter in games like Minecraft follows the same idea: stone ('rock') plus cutter ('one who cuts'). So the game's stonecutter is the tool that 'cuts rock' into different stone types and decorative blocks.