flush-cut

Updated: June 11, 2025

"Look at the small end," he said, handing me the cigar and the lens, "and tell me if you notice anything." I focussed the lens on the flush-cut surface of closely-rolled leaf, and explored every part of it minutely. "It seems to me," I said, "that the leaf is opened slightly in the centre, as if a fine wire had been passed up it."

R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman - The Red Thumb Mark