breadcutters

Noun

breadcutter (plural breadcutters)

1. A device for cutting bread, often consisting of a platform and a hinged blade.
   • Our cafeterie was a murky cellar measuring twenty feet by seven by eight high, and so crowded with coffee-urns, breadcutters and the like that one could hardly move without banging against something.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XI, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC
2. A person employed to cut bread.
   • He would willingly have cut six sides off the bread ration too, but he had no other bread, and he therefore limited himself to holding his bread ration over the hot plate, burning from all six sides the microbes implanted there by the hands of the bread-cutters […]1975, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956, translated by Thomas P. Whitney, New York: Harper & Row, Vol. II, Part III, Chapter 9, p. 273