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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cutter \Cut"ter\ (k[u^]t"t[~e]r), noun
1. One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.
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.
3. A fore tooth; an incisor. --Ray.
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 +RH]
5. A small, light one-horse sleigh.
6. An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
7. A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer. [Obs.]
8. A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut.
{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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cutter
noun
1: someone who cuts or carves stone [syn: {stonecutter}]
2: someone who carves the meat [syn: {carver}]
3: someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
4: a boat for communication between ship and shore [syn: {tender}, {ship's boat}, {pinnace}]
5: a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop
6: a cutting implement; a tool for cutting [syn: {cutlery}, {cutting tool}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "cutter": 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
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