cutter
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Noun (6)cutters
- someone who cuts or carves stoneSynonyms: stonecutterType of quarrier
- someone who carves the meatSynonyms: carverType of diner
- someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)Type of skilled worker, trained workerKinds gem cutter, glass cutter, garment cutter
- a boat for communication between ship and shoreSynonyms: tendership's boatpinnaceType of boatKinds gig
- a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloopType of sailing vessel, sailing ship
- a cutting implement; a tool for cuttingSynonyms: cutlerycutting toolType of cutting implementKinds glass cutter, tile cutter, die, bolt cutter, edge tool, cigar cutter
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
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. John Ray
4. Nautical (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. obsolete
8. A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; — so called from the facility with which it can be cut.
Cutter bar. Machinery (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 Machinery, 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. Knight, Edward Henry
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +RH