Anagrams of PRECUTTING_

• A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.

• A stake driven into the ground.

• A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

• A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

• One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

• (sometimes figurative) A sentry.

• A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

• The card game piquet.

• To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

• To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.

• To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

• To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

• To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

• Waste time.

• (Pennsylvania Dutch) To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood.

• an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)

• to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

• draw together into folds or puckers

• become wrinkled or drawn together

• a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake

• small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated

• aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves

• the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

• a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards

• a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake

• the feel of a surface or a fabric

• the essential quality of something

• the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together

• the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality

• the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)

• something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery

• goods or money obtained illegally

• something given as a token of victory

• of superior grade

• hold dear

• to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open

• regard highly; think much of