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  1. cutting down

    Taking a deck off a ship; as ships of the line are converted into frigates, the Royal Sovereign into a turret ship, &c.--Cutting down is also a dangerous midshipman's trick, and sometimes practised by the men: it consists in cutting the laniard of a cot or hammock in which a person is then asleep, and letting him fall--lumpus--either by the head or the feet.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cutting down in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cutting down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of cutting down in a Sentence

  1. Julia Alexander:

    Right now, WBD's two main priorities are driving growth while cutting down on costs, kids programming is an area that top players like Netflix( NFLX), Apple( AAPL), Disney( DIS), and Amazon( AMZN) are already invested in, while YouTube maintains the majority of that audience's attention.

  2. Clemens Toennies:

    Then the Africans would stop cutting down trees and produce babies when it is dark.

  3. Jang Woo-seok:

    Today's win is symbolic, but nevertheless a very important step, what AlphaGo is doing is essentially cutting down the number of potential moves to consider.

  4. Gavin Munro:

    The process that we go through to make a chair nowadays, the way we've been doing, is almost ludicrous. We grow these trees for sixty years before they're worth cutting down, and then we make them into smaller and smaller bits, only to stick them back together again in ways that can only ever come loose over time. And all the energy and all the driving around of all these bits and all the things that you need to make... why do all of that?

  5. Amon Vhumbu:

    We take protection of our environment seriously - anyone caught cutting down a tree in this area is heavily fined.

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