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plural cutters
A person or device that cuts (in various senses). quotations examples
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
(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. examples
A foretooth; an incisor. quotations examples
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, […]
A heavy-duty motor boat for official use. examples
(nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore. examples
(cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut. examples
(baseball) A cut fastball. examples
(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. quotations examples
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
(medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling. quotations examples
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
(obsolete) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
(obsolete) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer. quotations
So being outlaw'd (as 'tis told), / He with a crew went forth / Of lusty cutters, bold and strong, / And robbed in the north.
Martin Parker, A True Tale of Robin Hood
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)
(obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
A light sleigh drawn by one horse. quotations examples
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
(television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light. quotations examples
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
(MLE) A knife. quotations examples
Late night, take a flow, tryna find the ratsTwelve inch cutter in and out, then Imma ride them back
2017 July 25, Farley (lyrics and music), “Out Here”, 0:42–0:47
Hop out the ride with things and stuffBack the longest cutter, watch him cut him, [grate their neek trips?] up
2021 August 16, (Mali Strip) Killa Kurse x AR x Rondo (lyrics and music), “Buck aii LGR diss”, 1:23–1:28
[…] swing my cutterGet man down if he is on my brother
2021 November 29, KMulla (lyrics and music), “Mutual Feeling”, 1:24–1:27