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A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.

A tool with a hardened steel point, formerly used instead of a diamond for cutting glass.

Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.

A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.

A pickax with one sharp point and one cutting edge. Knight.

regulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post. My sword hacked like a handsaw. Shak.

One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.

ut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. Shak.

To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.

To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable. So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home. Milton.

One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.

An instrument for cutting the surface of grass land; a scarifier.

so called hay asthma, hay cold, and rose fever. -- Hay knife, a sharp instrument used in cutting hay out of a stack or mow. -- Hay press, a press for baling loose hay. -- Hay tea, the juice of hay extracted by boiling, used as food for cattle, etc. -- Hay tedder, a machine for spreading and turning newmown hay. See…

The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.

A tool used by turners in metal, having a bend forming a heel near the cutting end.

A cutting for the cure or relief of hernia; celotomy.

Destruction by cutting down. [Obs.] Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew. Spenser.

To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass. Raymond.

To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate. "Trees rudely hollowed." Dryden.