cutter

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

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

   • 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).
2. 2

   A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a…

   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. 3

   A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose

   • a coastguard cutter.
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   1. 4

      A foretooth

      A foretooth; an incisor.

      • the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root
   2. 5

      A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.

   3. 6

      A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.

   4. 7

      A cut fastball.

   5. 8

      A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates…

      A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.

   6. 9

      A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.

      • 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.
   7. 10

      A surgeon.

   8. 11

      An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.

      • 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 […]
   9. 12

      An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.

   10. 13

       A ruffian

       A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.

       • Martin Parker, A True Tale of Robin Hood So being outlaw'd (as 'tis told), / He with a crew went forth / Of lusty cutters, bold and strong, / And robbed in the north.
       • He's out of cash, and thou know'st by cutter's law, / We are bound to relieve one another.
   11. 14

       A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.

   12. 15

       A light sleigh drawn by one horse.

       • 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.
   13. 16

       A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.

       • Flags and other cutters allow the DP or gaffer to throw large controlled shadows on parts of the scene.
   14. 17

       A knife.

   15. 18

       An active child.

       • Late night, take a flow, tryna find the rats Twelve inch cutter in and out, then Imma ride them back
       • Hop out the ride with things and stuff Back the longest cutter, watch him cut him, [grate their neek trips?] up
       • […] swing my cutter Get man down if he is on my brother
   16. 19

       A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation

       A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.

   17. 20

       A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head…

       A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.

   18. 21

       A surname.

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