cutter
see also: Cutter
Pronunciation Noun
Cutter
Proper noun
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see also: Cutter
Pronunciation 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.
- 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 pejorative) A surgeon.
- Synonyms: slasher
- An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
- cot en
- 1905, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Beef Industry (page 89)
- 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 […]
- (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 :
- 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 :
- Italian: taglierino
- Portuguese: cortador
- Russian: резе́ц
- Russian: ка́тер
- Spanish: trineo
Cutter
Proper noun
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