cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌtɚ/
ipa: /ˈkʌtə/
homophone: Qatar
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cutters
Etymology: From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a stone cutter; a die cutter
text: In some CNC programs, the diameter of the cutter (such as an end mill) is handled by cutter compensation codes.
text: 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).
ref: 1982, The Movies, page 288:
text: Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes.
ref: 1988, Jorge Amado, Home is the Sailor, page 55:
glosses: A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: 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.
examples: text: a coastguard cutter.
glosses: A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose
examples: text: the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A foretooth; an incisor.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A cut fastball.
glosses: A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2013, Leona Davis, Past, Future, and End, FriesenPress, page 33:
glosses: A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: slasher
glosses: A surgeon.
examples: text: 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 […]
ref: 1905, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Beef Industry, page 89:
coordinate_terms: canner
darkcutter
glosses: An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
glosses: An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
examples: text: 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.
text: He's out of cash, and thou know'st by cutter's law, / We are bound to relieve one another.
ref: 1633, A Match at Midnight (disputed authorship)
glosses: A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
glosses: A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2007, Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, page 55:
glosses: A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
examples: text: Flags and other cutters allow the DP or gaffer to throw large controlled shadows on parts of the scene.
ref: 2012, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 86:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
glosses: A knife.
examples: text: Late night, take a flow, tryna find the rats
Twelve inch cutter in and out, then Imma ride them back
ref: 2017 July 25, Farley, “Out Here”, 0:42–0:47:
text: Hop out the ride with things and stuff
Back the longest cutter, watch him cut him, [grate their neek trips?] up
ref: 2021 August 16, (Mali Strip) Killa Kurse x AR x Rondo, “Buck aii LGR diss”, 1:23–1:28:
text: […] swing my cutter
Get man down if he is on my brother
ref: 2021 November 29, KMulla, “Mutual Feeling”, 1:24–1:27:
synonyms: splash
splasher
jooker
nank
shank
bassy
rambo
pokey
chete
ying
glosses: An active child.
glosses: A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.
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