The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register for 1798 included an explanation by a reader of how the cut was carried out in his college days in a lengthy letter to the editor, signed by the pseudonym Ansonius. In his rambling letter, Ansonius noted that when he was at college, … if a man passed an old acquaintance wittingly, without recognizing him, he was said— ‘To cut him.’ Ansonius then went on to explain the performance of the cut and noted that for a time the term to spear was used instead of to cut. However, that term did not remain long in use, and this act was generally known as the cut ever after.

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The secondary winding is laid in four coils, one on top of the other, with oil passages round the laminated-steel core; its 2,770V a.c. output is converted to 1,970V d.c. by four air-cooled mercury arc rectifiers, which feed each pair of 975V traction motors through a smoothing choke.

But alas! these thoughts, and wishings, and resolvings, were now too late to help me; this thought had passed my heart, God hath let me go, and I am fallen.