Cutter

//ˈkʌtɚ// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A person or device that cuts (in various senses).

    "a stone cutter; a die cutter"

  2. 2
    a cutting implement; a tool for cutting wordnet
  3. 3
    A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
  4. 4
    a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop wordnet
  5. 5
    A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose

    "a coastguard cutter."

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  1. 6
    a boat for communication between ship and shore wordnet
  2. 7
    A foretooth; an incisor.

    "the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root"

  3. 8
    someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments) wordnet
  4. 9
    A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
  5. 10
    someone who carves the meat wordnet
  6. 11
    A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
  7. 12
    someone who cuts or carves stone wordnet
  8. 13
    A cut fastball.
  9. 14
    A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon. slang
  10. 15
    A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh. informal

    "After I got out of the mental institution I was looking at t.v. show I was looking it a teenage girl who was a cutter her arm look just like my arm."

  11. 16
    A surgeon. colloquial, derogatory, humorous, slang
  12. 17
    An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.

    "Bulls and cows used for breeding, when finally sent to market, are inferior for dressed-beef production. Bulls are demanded especially for sausage and similar products. Cows are largely used as cutters and canners […]"

  13. 18
    An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid. obsolete
  14. 19
    A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer. obsolete

    "Martin Parker, A True Tale of Robin Hood So being outlaw'd (as 'tis told), / He with a crew went forth / Of lusty cutters, bold and strong, / And robbed in the north."

  15. 20
    A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework. obsolete
  16. 21
    A light sleigh drawn by one horse.

    "Throughout much of the winter, the sled or the cutter was the vehicle of choice. Emily and Joseph had a cutter, for traveling in style in snow."

  17. 22
    A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.

    "Flags and other cutters allow the DP or gaffer to throw large controlled shadows on parts of the scene."

  18. 23
    A knife. Multicultural-London-English
  19. 24
    An active child. Maine

    "Late night, take a flow, tryna find the rats Twelve inch cutter in and out, then Imma ride them back"

  20. 25
    A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist. derogatory
  21. 26
    A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.

Etymology

From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.

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