Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trotting horse; specifically, in recent use, a horse that in trotting lifts its feet only a little way from the ground.
- noun In base-ball, a ball batted so that it skims or bounds along the ground.
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Examples
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He pulls a low daisy-cutter a couple of feet wide of the right upright.
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It's 2-1 now as Pantelic pounces on a mistake by Schwarzer, who spills a daisy-cutter from Tosic at his feet.
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It's a far cry from the daisy-cutter daring of America.
Europe's Mr. Fix-It 2007
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Here's the not-so-deep part: driving there, you go through some neighborhoods - if one could use that word - that look like they were hit by a daisy-cutter bomb.
marcona almonds 2006
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Here's the not-so-deep part: driving there, you go through some neighborhoods - if one could use that word - that look like they were hit by a daisy-cutter bomb.
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There is not -- there isn't the heavy equipment over there to go into those caves, and take down tons of rubble from those daisy-cutter bombs, those huge bombs that blow up those caves.
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It seems that Osama bin Laden is there, although we hit one of the caves with a daisy-cutter bomb, massive bomb which crashes in the entrance and probably the exits, so maybe he's dead inside there.
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QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, the other day the United States took an extraordinary step of dropping a daisy-cutter somewhere up in Tora Bora.
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And if so, do you attribute that largely to the bombing campaign of the B-52s and those big 15,000-pound daisy-cutter weapons?
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That is what you called a daisy-cutter, and so we have also had that 15,000-pound munition in this fight.
ruzuzu commented on the word daisy-cutter
Also see grub.
January 30, 2012