cutter
See also: Cutter
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Noun
cutter (plural cutters)
- A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- a stone cutter; a die cutter
- 1982, The Movies (page 288)
- The intervening years, however, were spent as a cutter. He was, indeed, one of the best film editors in the business, winning an Academy Award for Body and Soul (1947).
- 1988, Jorge Amado, Home is the Sailor (page 55)
- Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes.
- (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.
- A foretooth; an incisor.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ray to this entry?)
- A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.
- a coastguard cutter.
- (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
- (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- (baseball) A cut fastball.
- (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
- (slang) A person who practices self-injury.
- (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
- Synonym: slasher
- (obsolete) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
- (obsolete) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
- (obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
- 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.
- 2007, Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, page 55 [1]:
Derived terms
Translations
person that cuts
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device that cuts
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single-masted sailing ship type
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heavy-duty motor boat for official use
ship's boat
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cricket: ball that has been cut
baseball: cut fastball
slang: ten pence piece
slang: person who cuts him or herself
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sleigh
French
Noun
cutter m (plural cutters)
- cutter, boxcutter, utility knife, Stanley knife
- (nautical) cutter (vessel)
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