Cutter definition

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A device, tool, or machine for cutting.
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One that cuts, especially in tailoring.
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A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.

A coastguard cutter.

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A small sleigh, usually seating one person and drawn by a single horse.
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A single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel with two or more headsails and a mast set somewhat farther aft than that of a sloop.
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A ship's boat, powered by a motor or oars and used for transporting stores or passengers.
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A patrol boat, especially a US Coast Guard ship that is at least 65 feet long and has accommodations for the crew.
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Baseball [Informal] cut fastball.
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A boat carried, esp. formerly, aboard large ships to transport personnel or supplies.
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An armed sailing vessel, formerly used by revenue authorities, as to pursue smugglers.
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A small, armed, engine-powered ship, used by the Coast Guard as for patrol duty.
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A single-masted yacht or sailboat carrying two headsails under normal wind conditions.
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A person or device that cuts (in various senses).

A stone cutter; a die cutter.

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(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.
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(nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
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(cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
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(baseball) A cut fastball.
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(slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
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(slang) A person who practices self-injury.
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A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
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A device or machine that cuts.
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A person who cuts or whose work is cutting; specif., a person whose work is cutting to patterns the sections that form a garment.
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A small, light sleigh, usually drawn by one horse.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
cutter
Plural:
cutters

Cutter Sentence Examples

  • In the Gartsherrie machine of Messrs Baird, the earliest of the flexible chain cutter type, the chain of cutters works round a fixed frame or jib projecting at right angles from the engine carriage, an arrangement which makes it necessary to cut from the end of the block of coal to the full depth, instead of holing into it from the face.

  • There was Carl the Cutter, The Gypsy, Frank the Fruitcake; crazy names.

  • At work, using a guillotine or paper cutter.

  • The large trepan or cutter weighs about 16 tons, and cuts a hole of from 9 to 15 ft.

  • Electric hedge Trimmers Electric hedge trimmers are the most common type of hedge cutter for small, domestic areas.

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