Dictionary Thesaurus Word Dynamo Quotes Reference Translator Spanish

cutter

[kuht-er]

Origin

ProGlide Styler TV Spot www.youtube.com/gillette Masters Of Style Commercial Check Out Gillette ProGlide Styler

Cutting www.bobcometal.com/AllMetal We Are The Supermarket Of Metals Any Metal Requirement! NowBuyOnLine

Dictionary.com Free Toolbar Dictionary.com Define Cutter Instantly. Faster Page Loads With Fewer Ads.

Ads

noun

a person who cuts, especially as a job, as one who cuts fabric for garments.

a machine, tool, or other device for cutting.

Nautical.

a single-masted sailing vessel, very similar to a sloop but having its mast set somewhat farther astern, about two-fifths of the way aft measured on the water line.

a ship's boat having double-banked oars and one or two lugsails.

Also called revenue cutter. a lightly armed government vessel used to prevent smuggling and enforce the customs regulations.

a person employed as a film editor.

EXPAND

a small, light sleigh, usually single-seated and pulled by one horse.

Also called rubber. a brick suitable for cutting and rubbing.

(in U.S. government grading of beef)

a low-quality grade of beef between utility and canner.

beef of this grade, mostly used in processed beef products, as sausage.

cut fastball.

COLLAPSE

adjective

10.

(in U.S. government grading of beef) graded between utility and canner.

:10

:09

:08

:07

:06

:05

:04

:03

:02

:01

Cutter is always a great word to know.

So is gobo. Does it mean:

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

LEARN MORE UNUSUAL WORDS WITH WORD DYNAMO...

Origin:
1375–1425; Middle English kittere, cuttere. See cut, -er¹

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source

Link To cutter

Collins

World English Dictionary

cutter (ˈkʌtə)

—n
1.	a person or thing that cuts, esp a person who cuts cloth for clothing
2.	a sailing boat with its mast stepped further aft so as to have a larger foretriangle than that of a sloop
3.	a ship's boat, powered by oars or sail, for carrying passengers or light cargo
4.	a small lightly armed boat, as used in the enforcement of customs regulations
5.	a pig weighing between 68 and 82 kg, from which fillets and larger joints are cut

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source

Etymonline

Word Origin & History

cutter

early 15c., "one who cuts," in any sense, agent noun from cut (v.). As a type of small, single-masted vessel, from 1762, earlier "boat belonging to a ship of war" (1745), perhaps so called from the notion of "cutting" through the water.

Word Dynamo By Dictionary.com

Searching for cutter?
How many words do you actually know?

FIND OUT

astern backwash bear boring machine box cutter burr

Image for cutter

Matching Quote

"The weapons with which we have gained our most important victories, which should be handed down as heirlooms from father to son, are not the sword and the lance, but the bushwhack, the turf-cutter, the spade, and the bog hoe, rusted with the blood of many a meadow, and begrimed with the dust of many a hard-fought field. The very winds blew the Indian's cornfield into the meadow, and pointed out the way which he had not the skill to follow. He had no better implement with which to intrench himself in the land than a clamshell. But the farmer is armed with plow and spade."

-Henry David Thoreau

Partners:Word Bloglines Citysearch The Daily Beast Ask Answers Ask Kids Life123 Sendori Thesaurus

About Privacy Policy Terms of Use API Careers Advertise with Us Contact Us Help

cutter

cut·ter