Brewer's: Cancel

to blot out, is merely “to make lattice-work.” This is done by making a cross over the part to be omitted. (Latin, cancello, to make trellis.) (See Cross It Out .)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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