cauter
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
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- Letters
- 6
Definition of cauter
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.
“The punctuall, or pointed cauter; is almost square, and altogether Sharpe pointed”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From French cautère, Latin cauterium, from Ancient Greek καυτήρ (kautḗr), variant of καυστήρ (kaustḗr, “cauterizing apparatus”), from καίω (kaíō, “burn”)). Compare caustic, cautery.
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