Cut that’s bound to include page five hundred (6)
I believe the answer is:
lopped
'cut' is the definition.
The answer and definition are not the same part of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs sometimes define each other.
'bound to include page five hundred' is the wordplay.
'bound' becomes 'lope' (to lope is to travel with bounding stride or bound).
'to include' indicates putting letters inside.
'page' becomes 'p'.
'five hundred' becomes 'D' (Roman numeral for 500).
'lope' placed around 'p' is 'loppe'.
'loppe'+'d'='LOPPED'
'that's' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lopped that I've seen before include "Pruned, cut top off" , "Cut away or trimmed branches or twigs" , "Cut off (a branch)" , "Cut or chopped away" .)