Verb
turn up, loosen, or remove earth
Source: WordNetIs our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire. Kim Wilde
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. Ezra Pound
Up to a certain time I was cutting into things. Then I realized that the thing I was cutting was the cut. Rather than cut into the material, I now use the material as the cut in space. Carl Andre
She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war. Cassandra Clare
As a general rule, I beg that it may be understood, that a case is not to be cut into parts, but that when it is known what the question in issue is, it must be met at once. Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough
To cut into another's man's ear is like cutting into a felt hat. Danish Proverb