metal-cutting

1. 1.

   hard and sharp enough to cut metal

   “metal-cutting tools”

   Similarsharp

Questions about metal-cutting

What does metal-cutting mean?

metal-cutting means "hard and sharp enough to cut metal".

How many syllables are in metal-cutting?

metal-cutting has 4 syllables: me-tal--cut-ting. The stress falls on "tal-".

Is metal-cutting a common word?

metal-cutting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.