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cutler|ˈkʌtlə(r)|
Forms: 5 coteler(e, cotteler, cut(t)eller, (cultelere), 5–6 cuteler, 6 cotelar, cuttelar, cutellar, cutlar, 5– cutler.
[a. F. coutelier:—L. type cultellāri-us, f. cultellus, OF. coutel knife.]
One who makes, deals in, or repairs knives and similar cutting utensils.
c1400Beryn 2297 The Cotelere..that made the same knyff. c1430Lydg. Hors Shepe & G. 130 Dagars wrought by the cutlers. 1538Leland Itin. V. 108 Ther be many Smithes and Cuttelars in Halamshire. 1592Greene 3rd Pt. Conny-catch. 23 One..came vnto a poore Cutler to haue a Cuttle made. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §53 An ordinary knife, which he bought of a common cutler for a shilling. 1723Lond. Gaz. 6196/9 Edward Birch, late of Birmingham..Short-Cutler. 1884Harper's Mag. June 81/2 Technically [at Sheffield] the cutler is the man who puts the knife together.
Hence ˈcutleress, ˈcutler-woman, a female cutler.
c1765T. Flloyd Tartarian T. (1785) 48/1 The cutleress was ready to die. Ibid. 45/1 The sequins the cutler-woman promised me. |