cheese-cutter

Richard Rutt describes the ordeals faced by those incarcerated for their faith: “A cord was passed under the thighs, crossed over the front then held taut by men on either side who applied a sawing motion that cut through the flesh like a cheese-cutter, right to the bone.”

Inside North Korea's Potemkin Church 2006

'Often he drew his bowie-knife, and rushed at me as if he would cut me into mince-meat; but I met him boldly with my' cheese-cutter, 'and backed him down.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

"Hooray, Rawlings!" he exclaimed excitedly, twirling his "cheese-cutter" cap round his head, and executing a sort of hop, skip, and jump of delight.

Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

Weel, I went doon to Dundee and bocht ten pund worth o 'ebony, and afore the wood was delivered the fashion had changed, and the men were all buyin' cheese-cutter bonnets, so here was I left wi 'ten pund worth o' ebony on my hands ... and if I hadna sold it to Davie Lamb the cabinet-maker for thirteen pund I micht ha 'lost the money.

A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

I asked him what he was afraid of and he told me that he always imagined that there was a man in a cheese-cutter cap waiting to murder him.

A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

He wore a jersey up to his neck, a thick pea-jacket and a cheese-cutter cap.

The Black Edgar Wallace 1903

The second officer wore the ordinary seafaring cap known as a cheese-cutter.

Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories Henry Seton Merriman 1882

"Sure, an 'it's proud I am to say yez, sorr," exclaimed the boatswain, touching the peak of his dilapidated cheese-cutter in salute, and with a smile of welcome on his genial face; "though it's lucky, bedad, ye didn't come afore, Misther Mackay, or faix ye'd have bin in toime to be too soon."

Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874

Och, you're a pleasure to watch, dear Mrs. Fothergill, an 'so's Borg here wi' his cheese-cutter. "

Modesty Blaise O'Donnell, P. 1965