cutter

plural cutters

1. A person or device that cuts (in various senses).

   a stone cutter; a die cutter

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   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).

   1982, The Movies, page 288

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

   1988, Jorge Amado, Home is the Sailor, page 55

2. nauticalA 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

   1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC

5. nauticalA ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
6. ball gamesA ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
7. ball gamesA cut fastball.
8. slangA ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
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.

   2013, Leona Davis, Past, Future, and End, FriesenPress, page 33

10. colloquialderogatoryhumorousslangmedicineA surgeon.

    Synonyms: slasher

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 […]

    1905, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Beef Industry, page 89

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

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    He's out of cash, and thou know'st by cutter's law, / We are bound to relieve one another.

    1633, A Match at Midnight (disputed authorship)

14. obsoleteA 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.

    2007, Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, page 55

16. broadcastingA 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.

    2012, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 86

17. Multicultural London EnglishA knife.
18. MaineAn active child.

    […] swing my cutter Get man down if he is on my brother

    2021 November 29, KMulla, “Mutual Feeling”, 1:24–1:27

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    Late night, take a flow, tryna find the rats Twelve inch cutter in and out, then Imma ride them back

    2017 July 25, Farley, “Out Here”, 0:42–0:47

    Hop out the ride with things and stuff Back the longest cutter, watch him cut him, [grate their neek trips?] up

    2021 August 16, (Mali Strip) Killa Kurse x AR x Rondo, “Buck aii LGR diss”, 1:23–1:28

    Synonyms: splash, splasher, jooker, nank, shank, bassy, rambo, pokey

19. derogatoryA supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
20. governmentA three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.

plural Cutters

1. A surname.