cutter

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut +‎ -er. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkʌtɚ/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkʌtə/ Homophone: Qatar Rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ) === Noun === cutter (plural cutters) A person or device that cuts (in various senses). (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. A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose A foretooth; an incisor. (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore. (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut. (baseball) A cut fastball. (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon. (informal) A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh. (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon. Synonym: slasher An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling. Coordinate terms: canner, darkcutter (obsolete) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid. (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. 1633, A Match at Midnight (disputed authorship) He's out of cash, and thou know'st by cutter's law, / We are bound to relieve one another. (obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework. A light sleigh drawn by one horse. (television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light. (MLE) A knife. (Maine) An active child. Synonyms: splash, splasher, jooker, nank, shank, bassy, rambo, pokey, chete, ying (intactivism, derogatory) A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist. (wrestling) A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: cúter → French: cotre→ Ottoman Turkish: قوطره (kotra)Turkish: kotra→ Armenian: քօթրա (kʻōtʻra) — Constantinople → German: Cutter, Kutter → Japanese: カッター (kattā) → Korean: 커터 (keoteo) ==== Translations ==== == French == === Pronunciation === === Noun === cutter m (plural cutters) utility knife, box cutter, Stanley knife (tool used to cut) Synonyms: couteau à lame rétractable, (Canada) exacto (nautical) cutter (vessel) === Further reading === “cutter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Italian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English cutter. === Noun === cutter m utility knife, box cutter, Stanley knife (tool used to cut) Synonyms: taglierino, trincetto (nautical) cutter (vessel) == Romanian == === Noun === cutter n (plural cuttere) alternative form of cuter ==== Declension ====