💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Cut a swathe"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| cut a wide swatheverb | Alternative spelling of cut a wide swath. [(chiefly US) To clear a broad track through a grassland, woodland, geographical region, or other area, either by natural means or by human action.] |
| bushwacknoun | Alternative spelling of bushwhack. [To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress.] |
| switch-bladenoun | Having a spring-loaded blade. |
| rip sawnoun | Alternative spelling of ripsaw. [(woodworking) A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip, to execute a rip cut.] |
| beats one's swords into plowsharesverb | (American spelling) Alternative spelling of beats one's swords into ploughshares. |
| swindgenoun | Alternative form of swinge. [(archaic) A swinging blow.] |
| cut the rugverb | Alternative form of cut a rug. [(informal, idiomatic) To dance, especially in a vigorous manner and in one of the dance styles of the first half of the twentieth century.] |
| green shaveverb | Alternative form of green-shave. [(transitive) To scrape the flesh side of an untanned hide.] |
| swoshverb | Alternative form of swash (“to dash or flow noisily; to splash”). [(ambitransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).] |
| rift-sawverb | Alternative form of rift saw. [To cut a log into boards by first quartering and then cutting radially at an angle of 30-60 degrees to the grain (as opposed to quartersaw, which involves cutting radially at an angle of 60-90 degrees).] |
| cross-hatchnoun | Alternative spelling of crosshatch. [A pattern of crossing lines.] |
| jumpcutnoun | Alternative spelling of jump cut. [(film) A cinematographic edit in which a single continuous sequential shot of a subject is broken into two parts, with a piece of footage being removed in order to render the effect of jumping forward in time.] |
| leave a markverb | Alternative form of leave one's mark. |
| head-huntverb | Alternative form of headhunt. [(transitive) To cut off, and preserve, the heads of one's enemies.] |
| swobnoun | Dated form of swab. [(medicine) A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.] |
| plain-sawverb | Alternative form of plain saw. [(transitive) To cut into boards using parallel cuts that are tangential to the growth rings.] |
| zig-zagnoun | Alternative spelling of zigzag. [A line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions.] |
| bitchslapnoun | Alternative spelling of bitch slap. [(slang, vulgar) An open-handed slap to the face.] |
| sight-readverb | Alternative spelling of sightread. |
| follow the leaderverb | Alternative spelling of follow-the-leader. |
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