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cutlery
Cutlery refers to any hand implement used in preparing, serving, and especially eating food in the Western world. A "cutler" is a person who makes or sells cutlery. The city of Sheffield in England has been famous for the production of cutlery since the 17th century and a train - the ''Master Cutler'' - running from Sheffield to London was named after the industry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Master Cutler )〕
Cutlery is more usually known as silverware or flatware in the United States, where ''cutlery'' usually means knives and related cutting instruments. Although the term ''silverware'' is used irrespective of the material composition of the utensils, the term ''tableware'' has come into use to avoid the implication that they are made of silver.
The major items of cutlery in the Western world are the knife, fork and spoon. In recent times, hybrid versions of cutlery have been made combining the functionality of different eating implements, including the spork (''sp''oon / f''ork''), spife (''sp''oon / kn''ife''), and knork (''kn''ife / f''ork'') or the sporf which is all three.
==Etymology==
The word cutler derives from the Middle English word 'cuteler' and this in turn derives from Old French 'coutelier' which comes from 'coutel'; meaning knife (modern French: couteau).〔The Sheffield Knife Book, Geoffrey Tweedale, The Hallamshire press, 1996, ISBN 1-874718-11-3〕
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