cutter

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English

A gaff cutter with a staysail and genoa jib set

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌtə(r)

Noun

cutter (plural cutters)

1. A person or device that cuts.

   a stone cutter; a die cutter

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 foretooth; an incisor.

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4. A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.

   a coastguard cutter.

5. (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
6. (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
7. (baseball) A cut fastball.
8. (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
9. (slang) A person who practices self-injury.
10. (obsolete) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
11. (obsolete) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
12. (obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
13. 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.

cutter

Derived terms

• glass cutter
• wire cutters

Translations

person that cuts

• Bulgarian: резач (bg) (rezač) m
• Esperanto: tranĉulo
• Finnish: leikkaaja (fi)

• Romanian: tăietor (ro)
• Russian: резчик (ru) (rézčik) m

device that cuts

• Bulgarian: резец (bg) (rezec) m, резачка (bg) (rezačka) f
• Esperanto: tranĉilo
• Finnish: leikkuri (fi)

• Romanian: cuțit (ro)
• Russian: резец (ru) (rezéc) m, резак (ru) (rezák) m

single-masted sailing ship type

• Bulgarian: катер (bg) (kater) m
• Czech: kutr (cs) m
• Estonian: kutter (et)
• Finnish: kutteri (fi)
• French: cotre (fr) m

• German: Kutter (de) m
• Irish: cuitéar (ga) m, soitheach an rí (ga) m
• Jèrriais: cotteur m
• Russian: катер (ru) (káter) m
• Swedish: kutter (sv) c

heavy-duty motor boat for official use

• Bulgarian: катер (bg) (kater) m
• Finnish: kutteri (fi)

• Russian: катер (ru) (káter) m

ship's boat

• Bulgarian: корабна лодка (bg) (korabna lodka)

• Finnish: yhteysvene (fi)

cricket: ball that has been cut

baseball: cut fastball

slang: ten pence piece

slang: person who cuts him or herself

• Finnish: viiltelijä (fi)

sleigh

• Finnish: yhden hevosen reki (fi)
• Hungarian: szán (hu)

• Spanish: trineo (es) m