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noun

Cutter n.

1.

One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.

2.

That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.

3.

A fore tooth; an incisor.

4.

(Naut.)

(a)

A boat used by ships of war.

(b)

A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower and deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead.

(c)

In the United States, a sailing vessel with one mast and a bowsprit, setting one or two headsails. In Great Britain and Europe, a cutter sets two headsails, with or without a bowsprit.

(d)

A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; also called revenue cutter.

5.

A small, light one-horse sleigh.

6.

An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.

7.

A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer. (Obs.)

8.

A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; so called from the facility with which it can be cut.

Cutter bar. (Mach.)

(a)

A bar which carries a cutter or cutting tool, as in a boring machine.

(b)

The bar to which the triangular knives of a harvester are attached.

Cutter head (Mach.), a rotating head, which itself forms a cutter, or a rotating stock to which cutters may be attached, as in a planing or matching machine.

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Etymology of 'Cutter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... is a handy sloop of great beam and enormous sail-carrying power; but a capsize is not uncommon, for they carry sail like vikings. In Sydney I saw all manner of craft, from the smart steam-launch and sailing-cutter to the smaller sloop and canoe pleasuring on the bay. Everybody owned a boat. If a boy in Australia has not the means to buy him a boat he builds one, and it is usually one not to be ashamed of. The Spray shed her Joseph's coat, the Fuego mainsail, in Sydney, and wearing ...

— Sailing Alone Around The World • Joshua Slocum

... that we hope to make an important capture to-morrow morning on the cliffs here, and asking him to send a well-armed boat at daylight, with instructions to stop and arrest any boat that may put out from the shore. If the revenue cutter happens to be lying off his station, or within reach of a messenger, I will tell him to have her off ...

— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty

... the dangers of a lee-shore. Next day, the weather being more moderate, they returned to the same station, and orders were given to prepare for a descent; but the duke of Marlborough having taken a view of the coast in an open cutter, accompanied by commodore Howe, thought proper to waive the attempt. Their next step was to bear away before the wind for Cherbourg, in the neighbourhood of which place the fleet came to anchor. Here some of the transports ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... only what every settler who builds himself a hut in the backwoods must feel, Bert. It is the work of every wood-cutter and charcoal-burner; it is a good deal like the work of every miner. You have been brought ...

— The Treasure of the Incas • G. A. Henty

... is frequently mentioned as Louis de Berquem de Bruges, in 1476. But Laborde finds earlier records of the art of cutting this gem: there was in Paris a diamond-cutter named Herman, in 1407. The diamond cutters of Paris were quite numerous in that year, and lived in a special district known as "la Courarie, where reside the workers in diamonds and ...

— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison

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