Cutter

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cutter¹

  • /ˈkʌtɚ/ US
  • /ˈkʌtə/ UK

Sounds like Qatar · Rhymes with -ʌtə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.

noun cutters

  1. A person or device that cuts (in various senses). a stone cutter; a die cutter
  2. 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 a coastguard cutter.
  4. A foretooth; an incisor. the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root
  5. A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
  6. A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
  7. 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.
  9. informal 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.
  10. colloquial, derogatory, humorous, slang A surgeon.
  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 […]
  12. obsolete An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
  13. obsolete A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer. , 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.
  14. obsolete A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
  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.
  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.
  17. Multicultural London English A knife.
  18. Maine An active child. Late night, take a flow, tryna find the rats Twelve inch cutter in and out, then Imma ride them back
  19. derogatory A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
  20. A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.

Cutter²

proper noun Cutters

  1. A surname.

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