cutter

Meanings

Plural: cutters

Noun

• someone who cuts or carves stone
• someone who carves the meat
• someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
• a boat for communication between ship and shore
• a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop
• a cutting implement; a tool for cutting
• A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
• 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.
• A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.
• A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
• A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
• A cut fastball.
• A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
• A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
• A surgeon.
• An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
• An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
• A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
• A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
• A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
• A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
• A knife.
• An active child.
• A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
• A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.

Synonyms

bassy, carver, chete, cutlery, cutting tool, jooker, nank, pinnace, pokey, rambo, shank, ship's boat, slasher, splash, splasher, stonecutter, tender, ying