(n.) A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German.
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Cutlery
Definition:
(n.) The business of a cutler.
(n.) Edged or cutting instruments, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) We should welcome the change in the cutlery rule because it marginally improves the chances of sustaining public support for more serious security measures.
(2) The two of them were building towers with wooden blocks, but they got bored of that and decided to start introducing other objects – a camera, some cutlery, a glass of water – to the tower.
(3) Memorabilia - ranging from the mail sacks to some of the cutlery they used as they hid out - will be on display.
(4) If you were a man, and not incompetent, you would eventually be sent to see the editor, Max – Max Hastings, a frightening person who writes very well on war and rather less well on British Airways cutlery – to discuss a possible promotion to the news desk.
(5) He can just about feed himself with special cutlery, as long as the food is soft and cut up small.
(6) Silver-plated cutlery may also be a source of adventitious chromium in the diets of these post-menopausal subjects.
(7) The cases and means of homicidal cases were classified by cutlery and pointed weapons: 243 cases, strangulation and throttling: 104 cases, blunt or similar ones: 96 cases, fire arms (pistol or hunting gun): 35 cases, poisoning: 8 cases, murder by fire: 4 cases, and 6 other cases.
(8) From my father’s side the treasures included: a stuffed canary; a tiny stuffed crocodile (a gharial , taken from the Ganges); some crested china bought in seaside resorts; and a canteen of excellent cutlery given as a wedding present in 1899 and never taken from its box.
(9) The total bacterial count per item for crockery and cutlery exceeded the desired limit by five to 6400 times, whilst the count for utensils was also exceeded by over 100 times in both years.
(10) In John Lewis , union flag cutlery sales were up 22% and 30% of the bestselling cushions were emblazoned with the flag.
(11) Coins were found in 8 patients, toys in 3, pins and needles in 6, chicken bones and fish bones in 15, and toothpicks, shaving blades, cutlery, dentures, plastic bag containing cocaine, parts of a foam rubber mattress and other items in the remainder.
(12) This is the test to which, for a variety of reasons, the west has responded poorly in recent years, exemplified by the airline ban on the use of metal cutlery.
(13) Ninety-one percent knew there were no risks from touching and 80% no risks from sharing cutlery and crockery.
(14) While the two candidates jousted on television, cutlery clinked.
(15) On the ground, his influence can be seen in everything from compostable cutlery and crockery to hybrid campus shuttles and free staff commuter buses at the 39,000-employee global headquarters in Redmond, Washington .
(16) Efforts should also be made to teach people about the effectiveness of condoms as a precaution against serotransmission and to reassure people that HIV infection is unlikely to result from contacts with towels, cutlery, toilet seats, or from caring for AIDS victims.
(17) They arrive in a bustle with a crackle of paper bags and soon the meeting room table is festooned with salad boxes and plastic cutlery.
(18) We walk past a pond, at the centre of which stands a sculpture made up of bronze cutlery: a knife, a fork, a spoon.
(19) The chances of a terrorist successfully hijacking an aircraft by threatening passengers or crew with a table knife are now deemed negligible by the British government, which some weeks ago authorised airlines to resume using metal cutlery.
(20) His mother insisted that his death was accidental, part of an experiment to silver plate a spoon – he had previously gold plated another piece of cutlery by stripping the gold from a pocket watch – with the chemicals found in a pot on the stove.