cutter

noun

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).

   Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes.

2. 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. 3

   A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose

   a coastguard cutter.

4. 4

   A foretooth; an incisor.

   the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root

5. 5

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

6. 6

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

7. 7

   A cut fastball.

8. 8

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

9. 9

   informalA 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. 10

    slangA surgeon.

11. 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. 12

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

13. 13

    obsoleteA 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.

14. 14

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

15. 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. 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. 17

    A knife.

18. 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

19. 19

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

20. 20

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

Forms

plural

cutters