CUTTING, a term used in various senses and various arts; in the general it implies a division or separation.
CUTTING is particularly used in heraldry, where the shield is divided into two equal parts, from right to left, parallel to the horizon, or in the fesse-way.
The word also is applied to the honourable ordinaries, and even to animals and moveables, when they are divided equally the same way; so, however, as that one
Cutting. one moiety is colour, the other metal. The ordinaries are said to be cut, coupé, when they do not come full to the extremities of the shield.