cutter

[ kuht-er ]

noun

1. a person who cuts, especially as a job, as one who cuts fabric for garments.
2. a machine, tool, or other device for cutting.
3. Nautical.
   1. a single-masted sailing vessel, very similar to a sloop but having its mast set somewhat farther astern, about two-fifths of the way aft measured on the water line.
   2. a ship's boat having double-banked oars and one or two lugsails.
4. Also called revenue cutter. a lightly armed government vessel used to prevent smuggling and enforce the customs regulations.
5. a person who repeatedly inflicts self-injury by cutting the skin, as to cope with negative emotions.
6. a person employed as a film editor.
7. a small, light sleigh, usually single-seated and pulled by one horse.
8. Also called rubber. a brick suitable for cutting and rubbing.
9. (in U.S. government grading of beef )
   1. a low-quality grade of beef between utility and canner.
   2. beef of this grade, mostly used in processed beef products, as sausage.
10. Baseball. cut fastball.

adjective

1. (in U.S. government grading of beef ) graded between utility and canner.

cutter

/ ˈkʌtə /

noun

1. a person or thing that cuts, esp a person who cuts cloth for clothing
2. a sailing boat with its mast stepped further aft so as to have a larger foretriangle than that of a sloop
3. a ship's boat, powered by oars or sail, for carrying passengers or light cargo
4. a small lightly armed boat, as used in the enforcement of customs regulations
5. a pig weighing between 68 and 82 kg, from which fillets and larger joints are cut

Word History and Origins

Origin of cutter¹

First recorded in 1375–1425; Middle English kittere, cuttere; cut, -er ¹

Example Sentences

There are fewer than 100 master-certified glove cutters in the world—a title that was formalized in 17th-century France and earned only after years of mentorship—and two of them work at Hestra.

From Outside Online

These critters have swapped out jaws for jointed fangs and scissor-like cutters.

From Science News For Students

That makes sense in theory, but in practice it’s required more hurdles, from paperwork to verification to penalties for line-cutters.

From Vox

As we head towards a new year, the cookie-cutter user experience might not cut it anymore.

From Search Engine Watch

They traced the plane’s edges onto body-shop paper, overlaid it onto a steel plate, and sliced the shape with a plasma cutter.

From Popular-Science

Then Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, made a bad batch of vaccine, and 40,000 children were sickened with polio.

From The Daily Beast

The job—feeding massive paper reams into a cutter—paid 10 cents above minimum wage.

From The Daily Beast

The problem is, “Yoga therapeutics has become very cookie cutter,” says Cruikshank.

From The Daily Beast

Eric Cantor was a noxious, cookie-cutter, U.S. Chamber, GOP hypocrite.

From The Daily Beast

There is no cookie-cutter plan for social media; you have to find what appeals most to your specific audience.

From The Daily Beast

At length, it was proposed by Dan Tyron to send for the stone cutter, and get him to cut them out of the wall with a chisel.

From Project Gutenberg

The cutter passes from plant to plant cutting only those plants that are ripe.

From Project Gutenberg

At this time the leaves are very brittle and unless the cutter is an experienced hand much injury may be done to the leaves.

From Project Gutenberg

“We are not in her clutches just yet, my lad,” said Captain Charnick, as he saw Digby anxiously watching the cutter.

From Project Gutenberg

Digby got a look at the compass within it, and found that the cutter was once more running up Channel.

From Project Gutenberg

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