ˈtable-cut, a. (n.)
[f. table n., used adverbially + cut ppl. a. or n.2]
Of a diamond or other precious stone: Cut in the form of a ‘table’: see table n. 18 and table diamond.
| 1688 Lond. Gaz. No. 2320/4 Lost.., a Diamond Ring, Table Cut. 1704 Ibid. No. 4046/4, 8 Rings, one a Diamond with 7 Stones, Table-cut. 1905 A. Lang in Longm. Mag. Apr. 566, I could not tell what stones the table-cut stones were. |
b. n. The style of cutting a precious stone as described above.
| 1891 in Cent. Dict. |
So ˈtable-cutter, a lapidary who cuts precious stones in ‘tables’; ˈtable-cutting = b.
| 1877 E. W. Streeter Precious Stones iv. 23 A little later [than 1373] the so-called ‘table-cutters’ at Nürnberg, and all other stone-engravers, formed themselves into a guild. 1877 Knight Dict. Mech. 2478/1 Table-cutting is adopted with flat thin gems, which have not sufficient protuberance to be cut as rose diamonds or brilliants. |