breadcutter

1975, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956, translated by Thomas P. Whitney, New York: Harper & Row, Vol. II, Part III, Chapter 9, p. 273, He would willingly have cut six sides off the bread ration too, but he had no other bread, and he therefore limited himself to holding his bread ration over the hot plate, burning from all six sides the microbes implanted there by the hands of the bread-cutters […]