Cutting

of Cut

The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.

Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.

Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.

Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.

Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.

a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting

an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; "he searched through piles of letters and clippings"