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Cutter

noun

1.

Someone who cuts or carves stone. Synonym: stonecutter.

2.

Someone who carves the meat. Synonym: carver.

3.

Someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments).

4.

A boat for communication between ship and shore. Synonyms: pinnace, ship's boat, tender.

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. Synonyms: cutlery, cutting tool.

Cut

adjective

1.

Separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument. "Cut tobacco" , "Blood from his cut forehead" , "Bandages on her cut wrists"

2.

Fashioned or shaped by cutting. "Cut diamonds" , "Cut velvet"

3.

With parts removed. Synonym: shortened.

4.

Made neat and tidy by trimming. Synonym: trimmed.

5.

(used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine. Synonym: mown.

6.

(of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit.

7.

(of a male animal) having the testicles removed. Synonyms: emasculated, gelded.

8.

(used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply. Synonym: slashed.

9.

Mixed with water. Synonyms: thinned, weakened. "A cup of thinned soup"

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"Cutter" Quotes from Famous Books

... is a handy sloop of great beam and enormous sail-carrying power; but a capsize is not uncommon, for they carry sail like vikings. In Sydney I saw all manner of craft, from the smart steam-launch and sailing-cutter to the smaller sloop and canoe pleasuring on the bay. Everybody owned a boat. If a boy in Australia has not the means to buy him a boat he builds one, and it is usually one not to be ashamed of. The Spray shed her Joseph's coat, the Fuego mainsail, in Sydney, and wearing ...

— Sailing Alone Around The World • Joshua Slocum

... that we hope to make an important capture to-morrow morning on the cliffs here, and asking him to send a well-armed boat at daylight, with instructions to stop and arrest any boat that may put out from the shore. If the revenue cutter happens to be lying off his station, or within reach of a messenger, I will tell him to have her off ...

— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty

... the dangers of a lee-shore. Next day, the weather being more moderate, they returned to the same station, and orders were given to prepare for a descent; but the duke of Marlborough having taken a view of the coast in an open cutter, accompanied by commodore Howe, thought proper to waive the attempt. Their next step was to bear away before the wind for Cherbourg, in the neighbourhood of which place the fleet came to anchor. Here some of the transports ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... only what every settler who builds himself a hut in the backwoods must feel, Bert. It is the work of every wood-cutter and charcoal-burner; it is a good deal like the work of every miner. You have been brought ...

— The Treasure of the Incas • G. A. Henty

... is frequently mentioned as Louis de Berquem de Bruges, in 1476. But Laborde finds earlier records of the art of cutting this gem: there was in Paris a diamond-cutter named Herman, in 1407. The diamond cutters of Paris were quite numerous in that year, and lived in a special district known as "la Courarie, where reside the workers in diamonds and ...

— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison

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