1. a caption or explanatory text accompanying a photograph or illustration
Usage: journalism; publishing
2. a boundary line marking where trees are to be cut or have been cut
Usage: forestry

Examples

• The newspaper editor wrote a brief cutline for the front-page photograph.
• Make sure the cutline accurately describes what’s happening in the image.
• The photo was published without a cutline, leaving readers confused.
• Foresters marked the cutline with bright orange paint.
• The logging crew followed the cutline through the dense forest.
• Environmental groups protested the proposed cutline through old-growth timber.