cutting

n. 1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut. [ 1913 Webster ]