How to specify more spaces for the delimiter using cut?

Is there any way to specify a field delimiter for more spaces with the cut command? (like ” “+) ?
For example: In the following string, I like to reach value ‘3744’, what field delimiter I should say?

$ps axu | grep jboss

jboss     2574  0.0  0.0   3744  1092 ?        S    Aug17   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/java/jboss/bin/run.sh -c example.com -b 0.0.0.0

cut -d' ' is not what I want, for it’s only for one single space.
awk is not what I am looking for either, but how to do with ‘cut’?

thanks.

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