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cutterhead

cutterhead noun: a rotating cylindrical cutting tool located at the head of a drill, boring machine, or the like.

cutterhead: a rotating cylindrical cutting tool located at the head of a drill, boring machine, or the like
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Noun

cutterhead (plural cutterheads)

  1. A rotating cylindrical cutting tool located at the head of a drill, boring machine, or the like.
    • The cutterhead, weighing 160 tonnes and with a ten-metre diameter, was moved by road in September.2022 December 14, Paul Stephen, “Network News: HS2's Dorothy starts to dig second tunnel bore”, in RAIL, number 972, page 22

Forms of cutterhead

pluralcutterheads

Origin of cutterhead

From cutter + head.

Questions about cutterhead

What does cutterhead mean?
Cutterhead means a rotating cylindrical cutting tool located at the head of a drill, boring machine, or the like.
What part of speech is cutterhead?
Cutterhead is a noun.
What is the plural of cutterhead?
The plural of cutterhead is cutterheads.

Words near cutterhead in the dictionary

  1. Cutter number
  2. Cutter numbers
  3. cutter-off
  4. cutter-offer
  5. cutter-offers
  6. cutterhead
  7. cutterheads
  8. Cutteries
  9. cutterman
  10. cuttermen
  11. cutters

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