# cutter
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈkʌtɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkʌtə/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)

### Noun

cutter (plural cutters)
* 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.
** 1982, The Movies, page 288: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).
** 1988, Jorge Amado, Home is the Sailor, page 55:Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes.
* (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.
* A foretooth; an incisor.
** 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root
* A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.
    a coastguard cutter.
* (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
* (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
* (baseball) A cut fastball.
* (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
* (informal) A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
** 2013, Leona Davis, Past, Future, and End, FriesenPress, page 33: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.
* (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
    Synonym: slasher
* An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
    Coordinate terms: canner, darkcutter
** 1905, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Beef Industry, page 89: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 […]
* (obsolete) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
* (obsolete) A 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.
** 1633, A Match at Midnight (disputed authorship)
    He's out of cash, and thou know'st by cutter's law, / We are bound to relieve one another.
* (obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
* A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
** 2007, Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, page 55: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.
* (television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
** 2012, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 86:Flags and other cutters allow the DP or gaffer to throw large controlled shadows on parts of the scene.
* (MLE) A knife.
* (Maine) An active child.
    Synonyms: splash, splasher, jooker, nank, shank, bassy, rambo, pokey, chete, ying
** 2017 July 25, Farley, “Out Here”‎, 0:42–0:47:Late night, take a flow, tryna find the rats Twelve inch cutter in and out, then Imma ride them back
** 2021 August 16, (Mali Strip) Killa Kurse x AR x Rondo, “Buck aii LGR diss”‎, 1:23–1:28:Hop out the ride with things and stuff Back the longest cutter, watch him cut him, [grate their neek trips?] up
** 2021 November 29, KMulla, “Mutual Feeling”‎, 1:24–1:27:[…] swing my cutter Get man down if he is on my brother
* (intactivism, derogatory) A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.

#### Derived terms

* biscuit cutter
* bolt cutter
* box-cutter
* box cutter
* boxcutter
* breadcutter
* brushcutter
* cane cutter
* canecutter
* cheese cutter
* cigar cutter
* clearcutter
* coalcutter
* concrete cutter
* cookie-cutter
* cookie cutter
* copy cutter
* cord-cutter
* corncutter
* cutter and paster
* cutterhead
* cutterman
* cutter-off
* cutter-offer
* daisy-cutter
* daisy cutter
* dark cutter
* diamond cutter
* egg cutter
* endocutter
* forecutter
* gemcutter
* gem-cutter
* gem cutter
* glass cutter
* glasscutter
* grasscutter
* haircutter
* histocutter
* leaf cutter
* leafcutter
* leaf-cutter
* leaf-cutter ant
* leaf-cutter bee
* leg cutter
* milling cutter
* nail cutter
* negative cutter
* off cutter
* overcutter
* paper cutter
* phlegm-cutter
* pipe cutter
* pisscutter
* pizza cutter
* plantcutter
* punchcutter
* revenue cutter
* rug-cutter
* stonecutter
* stump cutter
* swear like a cutter
* tube cutter
* turd cutter
* turfcutter
* typecutter
* verticutter
* wadcutter
* wheel cutter
* wire cutters
* woodcutter

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: cúter
* → Korean: 커터 (keoteo)

#### Translations
## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Noun

cutter m (plural cutters)
* utility knife, box cutter, Stanley knife (tool used to cut)
    Synonyms: couteau à lame rétractable, (Canada) exacto
* (nautical) cutter (vessel)

### Further reading

* “cutter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cutter.

### Noun

cutter m
* utility knife, box cutter, Stanley knife (tool used to cut)
    Synonyms: taglierino, trincetto
* (nautical) cutter (vessel)

## Romanian
### Noun

cutter n (plural cuttere)
* Alternative form of cuter