cutter
IPA: kˈʌtɝ
noun
- A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- (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.
- (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.
- (informal) A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
- (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
- An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
- (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.
- (television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
- (MLE) A knife.
- A surname.
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Examples of "cutter" in Sentences
- The cutter first plunges to drill the hole.
- Mounted on the carriage is a cutter and a cutter drive.
- That pie top cutter is so nice - thanks for the giveaway!
- The cutter makes the slot in the centre of the blank's head.
- A cam is used to impel the cutter and its drive shaft along its path.
- There is no foresail boom in any photo, even from her revenue cutter days.
- Reuters Andy Pettitte The cutter is a mix between a fastball and a slider.
- The central yoke functions to distribute the loading of the inboard cutters.
- The cutter discs and flattening rolls are controllably driven in synchronism.
- The cutter is generally pen shaped, the nib portion forming the cutting surface.
- The cutter means includes a plurality of cutter teeth mounted on a cutter shaft.
- Uh ... laser cutting probably isn't for you if you think a laser cutter is sharp.
- Heart shaped cookie cutters and a sprinkling of nonpareils add the finishing touch.
- The cutter is adjustable, so you can determine the size and number of slices that your pie will have, and it is collapsible for easy storage.
- You speak as though we all exist as helpless puppets ordained to live a certain way, and that to struggle against this cookie-cutter is wrong and futile.
- To call this Administration a tax cutter is like taking a spoiled kid who does not touch dinner but takes a double portion of chocolate cake for dessert a "good eater."
- Use your sharpest axe as the cutting tool, the second as a hammer, driving the cutter from the base of the ribcage, up the middle of the breastbone, through the top ribs.
- It is, hands-down, the best freezer accessory money can buy. 2 tips: make the bags extra-long so you can re-seal after cutting them open; and just buy the low-end unit (cheap!) unless you really need a built-in cutter or canister sealing hose.
- I have not troubled to see if Shard added up his figures wrongly or if he under-rated the pace of camels, but whatever it was the Arabs gained slightly, for on the fourth day Spanish Jack, five knots astern on what they called the cutter, sighted the camels a very long way off and signalled the fact to Shard.