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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Heart shaped cookie cutters and a sprinkling of nonpareils add the finishing touch.
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