CUTTING, a term used in various senses in various arts; but in 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 is also applied to the honourable ordinaries, and even to animals and moveables, when they are divided equally the same way, so as that one moiety is colour, and the other metal. The ordinaries are said to be cut, coupé,
when they do not come full to the extremities of the shield.