Cutter

/ˈkʌtɚ/ · noun

Meaning

A person or device that cuts (in various senses)..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
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 motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose
4. A foretooth; an incisor.
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.

Example Sentences

a stone cutter; a die cutter

In some CNC programs, the diameter of the cutter (such as an end mill) is handled by cutter compensation codes.

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).

Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes.

a coastguard cutter.

the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root

After I got out of the mental institution I was looking at t.v. show I was looking it a teenage girl who was a cutter her arm look just like my arm.

Bulls and cows used for breeding, when finally sent to market, are inferior for dressed-beef production. Bulls are demanded especially for sausage and similar products. Cows are largely used as cutters and canners […]

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