CUT-Purse, in Law; if any person clom et secrete, and without the knowledge of another, cut his purse or pick his pocket, and steal from thence above the value of twelve pence, it is felony excluded clergy.
Cut-purses or saccularii, were more severely punished than common thieves by the Roman and Athenian laws.
Cut-Water, the sharp part of the head of a ship below the beak. It is so called, because it cuts or divides the water before it comes to the bow, that it
may not come too suddenly to the breadth of the ship, Cutaneous
which would retard it. Cutting.