Cutter: Definition and part of speech

Cutter

  1. n. A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; — so called from the facility with which it can be cut.
  2. n. One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. A fore tooth; an incisor.
  5. n. A boat used by ships of war.
  6. n. A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead.
  7. n. A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; — also called revenue cutter.
  8. n. A small, light one-horse sleigh.
  9. n. An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
  10. n. A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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