cutter

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A gaff cutter with a staysail and genoa jib set

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Singular
cutter

Plural
cutters

cutter (plural cutters)

  1. A person or device that cuts
  2. (nautical) 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.
  3. A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.
    a coastguard cutter.
  4. (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
  5. (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
  6. (baseball) A cut fastball.
  7. (slang) A ten pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
  8. (slang) A person who practices self-injury.
  9. A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
    • 2007, Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, page 55 [1]:
      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.
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