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cutting off a corner

cutting off a corner is the present participle and gerund of cut off a corner.

Meaning of cut off a corner

Verb

cut off a corner (third-person singular simple present cuts off a corner, present participle cutting off a corner, simple past and past participle cut off a corner)

  1. To take a shortcut.
    • Pioneer seemed now to have the game in his own hands; but the Captain, by taking two desperate leaps, cut off a corner, by which he regained the ground he had lost by the fall, and was up with the grey the remainder of the chase.1833, Sporting Magazine, volume 6, page 400

Questions about cutting off a corner

What is cutting off a corner the present participle and gerund of?
Cutting off a corner is the present participle and gerund of cut off a corner.

Words near cutting off a corner in the dictionary

  1. cutting it up
  2. cutting like a knife
  3. cutting logs
  4. cutting loose
  5. cutting off
  6. cutting off a corner
  7. cutting off at the pass
  8. cutting off more than one can chew
  9. cutting off one's nose to spite one's face
  10. cutting one
  11. cutting one loose

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