[? f. CUT v.] A name applied to groats (husked oat-grains), or to coarse oatmeal.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. 317/1. Groats, or Cutlings [are] Oats husked.

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1847–78.  Halliwell, Cutlins, oatmeal grits. North.

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1858.  Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Cutlings, a name for groats, bruised oat seeds freed of the pericarp, used for gruel, porridge, &c.

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