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hole cut in a wall, panelling, etc. to let light in

striking sparks with flint and steel or by rubbing sticks together (usu. to start a fire); fire lit by sparks from flint and steel, etc.

purification ceremony in which sparks are struck in the direction of someone (oft. for good luck)

Food, cooking

rice cakes cut into rectangles (esp. eaten on New Year's Day)

to cleave; to saw through; to hack apart

line along which to cut something off; perforated line; dotted line

to rip off a coupon; to punch a ticket

to cut through (with a road, tunnel, or canal)

to cut; to slash; to slay all

Pre-noun adjectival (rentaishi)

seamless; contiguous; unbroken; non-stop

thick; dull (blunt); viscous

gap (in a mountain ridge)

threatened abortion; imminent abortion; threatened miscarriage; imminent miscarriage

shock corps

to cut down all; to slash promiscuously

retrenchment; curtailment

low gate; side gate

kirigami; the art of cutting paper (in contrast to origami); cut paper; paper cut in half; paper scrap

cutter; cutting machine; guillotine

to cut loose; to let loose; to cut off; to detach; to dismember; to cut in two

to separate in thought; to consider as independent

surgical operation

metallic foil cut into strips or other shapes to form decorative motifs

cutting a thin sheet of metal into shapes and affixing it with lacquer forming natural features (e.g. clouds)

cutout; notch

to miss in attempting to kill

Pre-noun adjectival (rentaishi)

eager; earnest; ardent