cutter

Etymology

cut + -er

noun

1. A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
   a stone cutter; a die cutter
   In some CNC programs, the diameter of the cutter (such as an end mill) is handled by cutter compensation codes.
   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
2. (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.
3. A foretooth; an incisor.
4. A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.
   a coastguard cutter.
5. (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
6. (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
7. (baseball) A cut fastball.
8. (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
9. (informal) A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
   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
10. (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
11. An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
    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
12. (obsolete) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
13. (obsolete) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
    Martin Parker, A True Tale of Robin Hood So being outlaw'd (as 'tis told), / He with a crew went forth / Of lusty cutters, bold and strong, / And robbed in the north.
    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)
14. (obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
15. A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
    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
16. (television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
    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
17. (MLE) A knife.
    Late night, take a flow, tryna find the rats Twelve inch cutter in and out, then Imma ride them back 2017-07-25, Farley (lyrics and music), “Out Here”, 0:42–0:47
    Hop out the ride with things and stuff Back the longest cutter, watch him cut him, [grate their neek trips?] up 16-08-2021, (Mali Strip) Killa Kurse x AR x Rondo (lyrics and music), “Buck aii LGR diss”, 1:23–1:28
    […] swing my cutter Get man down if he is on my brother 29-11-2021, KMulla (lyrics and music), “Mutual Feeling”, 1:24–1:27