'Cutter' definitions:
Definition of 'cutter'
From: WordNet
noun
Someone who cuts or carves stone [syn: stonecutter, cutter]
noun
Someone who carves the meat [syn: cutter, carver]
noun
Someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
noun
noun
A sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop
noun
A cutting implement; a tool for cutting [syn: cutter, cutlery, cutting tool]
Definition of 'Cutter'
From: GCIDE
- Cutter \Cut"ter\ (k[u^]t"t[~e]r), n.
- 1. One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A fore tooth; an incisor. --Ray. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Naut.) (a) A boat used by ships of war. (b) A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower and deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead. (c) In the United States, a sailing vessel with one mast and a bowsprit, setting one or two headsails. In Great Britain and Europe, a cutter sets two headsails, with or without a bowsprit. (d) A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; -- also called {revenue cutter}. [1913 Webster +RDH]
- 5. A small, light one-horse sleigh. [1913 Webster]
- 6. An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid. [1913 Webster]
- 7. A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 8. A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut. [1913 Webster]
- Cutter bar. (Mach.) (a) A bar which carries a cutter or cutting tool, as in a boring machine. (b) The bar to which the triangular knives of a harvester are attached.
- Cutter head (Mach.), a rotating head, which itself forms a cutter, or a rotating stock to which cutters may be attached, as in a planing or matching machine. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cutter'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abridger,
- abstracter,
- analyzer,
- ax,
- baby tooth,
- bicuspid,
- blade,
- breaker,
- bucktooth,
- canine,
- centrifuge,
- cold steel,
- crown,
- cuspid,
- cutlery,
- dagger,
- deciduous tooth,
- dent,
- denticle,
- denticulation,
- dentil,
- dentition,
- dogtooth,
- edge tools,
- epitomist,
- epitomizer,
- eyetooth,
- fang,
- finisher,
- fore tooth,
- gagtooth,
- gang tooth,
- garmentmaker,
- garmentworker,
- gold tooth,
- grinder,
- incisor,
- knife,
- milk tooth,
- molar,
- naked steel,
- needleworker,
- peg,
- permanent tooth,
- pigsticker,
- pivot tooth,
- point,
- premolar,
- puncturer,
- scrivello,
- separator,
- sharpener,
- shortener,
- sieve,
- snag,
- snaggletooth,
- steel,
- stitcher,
- stripper,
- sword,
- toad sticker,
- tooth,
- tush,
- tusk,
- whittle,
- wisdom tooth
Words containing 'Cutter'
- Chaff cutter,
- Cutter bar,
- Cutter head,
- File cutter,
- Gear cutter,
- Glass cutter,
- Letter cutter,
- Milling cutter,
- Plant cutter,
- Plantain cutter,
- Revenue cutter,
- Wheel cutter,
- bolt cutter,
- cane cutter,
- cheese cutter,
- cigar cutter,
- cookie cutter,
- daisy cutter,
- garment cutter,
- gem cutter,
- leaf cutter,
- linoleum cutter,
- paper cutter,
- pipe cutter,
- tile cutter,
- wire cutter,
- Hay-cutter,
- Straw-cutter,
- Sward-cutter,
- cookie-cutter,
- glass-cutter,
- leaf-cutter,
- leaf-cutter bee