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Cutter   /kˈətər/   Listen
noun
Cutter  n.  
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.
4.
(Naut.)
(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. (Obs.)
8.
A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; so called from the facility with which it can be cut.
Cutter bar. (Mach.)
(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 (Mach.), 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.





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"Cutter" Quotes from Famous Books



... out again (looking very foolish) and push afresh, and then one of the boats had mysteriously lost her plug and sank in half a fathom of water. July had gained a full hundred yards' offing before the pursuit began in earnest, and this meant a good deal. Once clear of the point the small cutter could defy their rowing and reach away to the eastward with the wind just behind her beam. The riding-officer saw this, and ordered his men to fire. They assert, and we must believe, that their object was merely to disable the boat by ...
— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... lads, lighten the cutter all you can. Jem, you and three more will man her. Like to come ...
— Old Gold - The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig • George Manville Fenn
... ship 7th February at 1.10 p.m., the cutter and whale-boat being placed in my charge to assist in crossing the horses and stores belonging to the Exploring Expedition, and bring down to the ship our party from the ...
— Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria - In search of Burke and Wills • William Landsborough
... father's letters and found interesting notes from myself. One I should say my first letter, which little Austin I should say would rejoice to see and shall see - with a drawing of a cottage and a spirited "cob." What was more to the purpose, I found with it a paste-cutter which Mary begged humbly for Christine and I generously gave ...
— Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin • Robert Louis Stevenson
... Swatkins girl from the Duck Pond, the one that married Dan Robinson. It was one Sunday, in the Catholic meetin'-house. I'd allers wanted to go to a Catholic meetin', an' I declare it's about the solemnest one there is. I mistrusted I was goin' to everlastin'ly giggle, but I tell yer I was the awedest cutter yer ever see. But anyway, the Swatkins girl—or Mis' Robinson, she is now—was there as large as life in the next pew to me, jabberin' Latin, pawin' beads, gettin' up 'n' kneelin' down, 'n' crossin' herself north, south, east, 'n' west, with the best of 'em. Poor ...
— The Village Watch-Tower • (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin


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