cuttern.1
/ˈkʌtə/, U.S. /ˈkədər/ 1.
a. One who cuts; one who shapes things by cutting: the name of operatives in many subordinate branches of industry.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who cuts
hewer1382
cutter1483
1483 Cath. Angl. 88 A Cutter, scissor.
1485 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 240 Gevyn in ale to þe cutters of the pole jd.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 211/2 Cutter of throtes, coupeur de gorges.
1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion ii. 12 An experienced cutter of Gems.
1875 Guide Royal Porcelain Wks. 4 The transferrers, who place the prints on the ware; and the cutters, who prepare the paper for them.
b. With adverbs, as cutter-down, cutter-off, cutter-out (also spec. in U.S., Australian, and New Zealand one who separates cattle from a herd: see to cut out 4 at cut v. Phrasal verbs), etc. cutter-in, (a) in Whaling, one who cuts up a whale so as to remove the blubber (cf. to cut in 2 at cut v. Phrasal verbs); (b) a motorist who cuts in between or in front of vehicles (cf. to cut in 3 at cut v. Phrasal verbs).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > carrying out specific processes > cutting out > one who
shepster1377
cutter-out1824
cutter1885
society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > [noun] > one who skins whales
flencher1820
cutter-in1843
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > droving > cutting-out > person
cutter-out1910
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of motor vehicle > who cuts between other vehicles
cutter-in1928
weaver1960
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Avalleur, a..feller, cutter downe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. ii. 47 The cutter off of natures witte. View more context for this quotation
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 20 She was accomplished in all the arts of the needle..a capital cutter-out.
1843 E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. I. ii. 51 [The tongue] is a monopoly of the ‘tonguer’ or ‘cutter-in’.
1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. xii. 114 Fifty horsemen..cutters-off of the highway, wild as wild Arabs.
1910 C. E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy iii. 28 Each of the cutters-out rode after some calf.
1920 C. E. Mulford Johnny Nelson xxv. 259 There was only one pair of ropers..and only three cutters-out.
1928 Daily Express 5 June 9/1 The cutters-in, and the speed-at-any-price merchants who spoil travelling.
1928 Daily Express 26 June 10/2 The cutter-in and the speeder-up..are the causes of..accidents.
1940 E. C. Studholme Te Waimate (1954) xvi. 136 The ‘cutter-out’ rode through [the cattle], and after spotting the beast he wanted, would follow it out to the edge of the mob.
c. In many combinations, as fustian-cutter, stone-cutter, wood-cutter, etc.: see these words.
2. spec.† a. A hair-cutter. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > barbers and hairdressers > [noun]
barberc1330
cutterc1425
clipperc1440
raster cloth1440
poller1578
trimmer1583
dressera1596
shavester1620
razor-chirurgeon1624
suds-monger1638
tonsor1656
hair-man1689
head-dresser1697
friseur1750
hairdresser1771
scraper1791
depilator1836
coiffeur1847
Figaro1864
strap1864
tonsorialist1869
trichotomist1875
nai1883
hair-stylist1935
stylist1937
styler1960
crimper1966
Sweeney1966
scissorsmith2002
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 652/8 Hic tonsor, cuttere. Hic rasor, a shawere.
a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) iii. ii. 64 I sough the villadge through and coold ffind neare' a cutter.
b. A carver, sculptor, engraver.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > sculptor or carver
imagerc1400
carverc1405
graver1430
cutter1572
scraper1591
insculptor1598
sculptor1634
sculptress1662
sculpturist1689
sculpturer1732
chiseller1883
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > engraver
sculptor1634
under-engraver1656
engraver1705
scratcher1736
scraper1763
print cutter1766
block-cutter1859
burinista1864
point-draughtsman1872
cutter1880
print trimmer1892
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 25v Payntors, cutters, grauers, glasiers, and embrodurers.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 105 In this Hippopatom the cutter chose rather to follow then reforme an error.
1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates xii. 126 Naming Durer as its designer, but not as its cutter upon the wood-block.
c. †(a) A tailor. Obsolete. (b) Now, The person employed in a tailoring or similar establishment to take the measures and cut out the cloth.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > tailor
seamsterc995
tailor1297
parnterc1400
parmenterc1450
pricklouse?a1513
Tom Tailor1575
stitcher1589
scissor man1593
cutter1599
snip1600
snipper1611
shred1616
needleman1621
fashioner1631
snip-snappera1632
sartor1656
nipshred1661
stult1675
cabbage1694
linen-armourer1699
stitch1699
snip-cabbage1708
tire-man1709
knight of the needlea1777
stay-tape1785
schneider1796
needle-jerker1801
skip-louse1807
darzi1809
cross-legs1823
tog-maker1901
knight of the shears-
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > carrying out specific processes > cutting out > one who
shepster1377
cutter-out1824
cutter1885
1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Claravoya Iags or cuts in garments, such as cutters inuent for gentle-women.
1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (new ed.) Another called himself a Cutter: We ask'd him whether in Wood or Stone? Neither, said he, but in Cloth and Stuff (Anglicè a Taylor).
1885 Law Times 80 8/1 Employed by..a tailor in Regent-street, as a cutter and fitter of wearing apparel.
d. One who cuts or castrates animals.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > castration or spaying > one who
libber14..
geldera1425
cutter1562
spaver1824
1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory (1597) 53 This my Bore is chast, for my cutter hath cut him.
1603 MS Canterbury Marriage Licences Anthony Latenden of Wittersham, horse cutter.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4182/4 He..is by Trade a Cutter of Pigs.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Cutter, a gelder.
e. Cinematography. One who cuts or edits a film (see cut v. 21e). Also film-cutter.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > editing > [noun] > editor
editor1913
cutter1921
1921 D. Boughey Film Industry vii. 65 So interwoven are the functions of the editor, or cutter..that the two must work in perfect harmony.
1928 Sunday Express 18 Mar. 4/3 In America the film-cutter is a man with a sub~editorial mind developed to the nth degree, and film-cutting..is one of the highest paid professions.
1961 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing (ed. 9) ii. 185 In a newsreel unit the man in charge is generally referred to as the Editor, and the man who does the actual assembling in the cutting room, the Cutter.
1966 Listener 17 Mar. 383/2 That shows how much you owe to the cutter and the director when it comes to the screen.
a. One over-ready to resort to weapons; a bully, bravo; also, a cutthroat, highway-robber. Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun]
routerc1300
tyrant1377
ruffy?a1513
ruffiana1525
kempy1525
cut-throat1535
slasher1559
cutter1569
hackster1574
hacker1576
cuttle1600
ruffiano1611
bully rook1673
thug1838
Apache1902
ned1910
rough-up1911
goonda1926
hoon1938
messer1942
the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] > murderer or assassin
banea800
murthereOE
quellerOE
manslaughta1225
manquellec1275
murderer1340
Cainc1380
drepera1400
sicariana1400
murder mana1450
interfector1450
murdrier1481
murdresara1500
assassin1531
cut-throat1535
cutter1569
baner1605
brave1606
bravo1609
dagger-mana1616
assassinate1621
assassinator1651
sword-taker1660
assassinant1662
banesman1870
hatchet man1876
murdermonger1900
hit-man1970
mechanic1972
contract killer1980
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > masterful or bullying > person
slasher1559
cutter1569
bangsterc1570
hackster1574
hacker1576
swish-swash1582
burgullian1601
bully1604
bully ruffian1653
huff1674
bully-back1693
bully beau1696
shoulder-hitter1856
shoulder-striker1860
whitecapper1887
Macoute1991
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 85 He..gathered together a companye of Roysters and Cutters, and practised robberyes.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 135 b Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells.
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders xv. 95 A theefe, or rather a cutter by the high way.
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths II. 57 His infirmities were passion, in which he would swear like a cutter [etc.].
1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. iii. 66 I see, sir, you understand cutter's law—when one tall fellow has coin, another must not be thirsty.
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1770 Ann. Reg. 1769 132/2 Fifty weavers, commonly called cutters, all masked, assembled..in Hoxton-square.
1770 Ann. Reg. 1769 124/1 The new body of cutters, that have made a fresh disturbance in the neighbourhood of Spital-fields, are handkerchief-weavers.
1770 Monthly Rev. 77 Two of the Spitalsfields rioters, or cutters, were sentenced to be hanged.
4. † b. One of the front or cutting teeth; an incisor.
a. That which cuts; an implement or tool for cutting; the cutting part of a machine, etc.Used in a number of specific applications in various trades, and in numerous combinations, as chaff-cutter, disc-cutter, turnip-cutter, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > [noun]
steelOE
edge-toola1375
graver1548
clipper1578
cutter1631
chipper1879
1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 84 He provided rules and cutters for making of farthings.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 163 Another Workman takes them [sc. iron bars] whilst hot and puts them through the Cutters.
1788 Trans. Soc. Arts 6 200 In cutting small Wheels, Nuts, or Pinions, the Cutter must go in between the Chaps.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 60 Giving rotatory motion to a circular horizontal cutter.
1859 M. I. O. Gascoigne Handbk. Turning (new ed.) 65 Slide the cutter towards the edge of the work by turning the screw of the slide rest.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > front or incisor
fore-toothc1000
cutter1579
shearer1610
shredder1650
incisora1682
incisive1804
incisor tooth1830
1579 J. Jones Arte preseruing Bodie & Soule i. xxi. 40 Whereof eight [teeth] be cutters, foure biters, and twentie grinders.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iv. xii. 348 In Man they [the teeth] are of a threefold figure: Cutters, Dog-teeth, and Grinders.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 190 The Cutters [are] before, that they may be ready to cut off a morsel..to be transmitted to the Grinders.
c. Sound Recording. A tool which cuts a groove in a recording medium. In full cutter stylus.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > cutting stylus
stylus1875
cutter stylus1908
cutting stylus1926
1908 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 56 642/1 With a 12 inch disc, when the cutter is ½ inch from the edge, it will in one revolution describe a line on the record of a length approximately equal to the circumference of a circle of 11 inches diameter.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio iv. 87 The hot-stylus method..helps to smooth the wall as the cutter moves on.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio iv. 88 The cutter stylus ploughs its way through the surface of a disc.
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a. One who or that which cuts, in various transferred senses of the verb (see the quots.); one who cuts an acquaintance; a cutting remark, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > excision > one who
cutter1579
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > mordancy > pungent remark, writing, or language
cutter1688
pepperer1712
sulphur1897
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > lack of affability > refusal to recognize a person > one or those who
cutter1798
cuts1871
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > card-player > dealer, cutter, or shuffler
dealer1600
cutter1882
shuffler1894
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 799 See, the cutter of my wordes riseth.
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 232 Then apply a Repeller, as Oyl of Roses, with which mingle cutters, or Vinegar.
1688 T. Brown Reasons Mr. Bays 17 This is a cutter, by my faith Mr. Bays, it lashes somewhere with a vengeance.
1781 H. Smeathman in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 179 (note) Not only all his cloaths were destroyed by white Ants or Cutters, but his papers also.
1798 Monthly Mag. in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1799) 2 382 The cutter either walked smartly by, pretending not to see the cuttee; or, if he wished to make the cut more complete, looked him full in the face.
1835 Fraser's Mag. 12 145 I never cut any one..and have, indeed, a very considerable contempt for all cutters.
1882 Knowledge No. 19. 409/2 The cards are not shuffled between the cuts, so that the cutter, if he fails the first time, has a rather better chance next time.
b. Cricket. (a) A batter who ‘cuts’ the ball (see cut v. 31a) or who is adept at making this stroke. (b) A ball that turns sharply after pitching (see cut v. 31a).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > batsman > types of batsman
sticker1832
short runner1833
punisher1846
slogger1850
blocker1851
cutter1851
swiper1853
top scorer1860
stick1863
left-hander1864
smiter1878
centurion1886
driver1888
pad-player1888
poker1888
spectacle-maker1893
back-player1897
hooker1900
under-runner1903
puller1911
square cutter1920
straight driver1925
stroke-maker1927
goose-gamer1928
stroke-player1935
flasher1936
sweeper1961
tonker1977
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball
full toss1826
long hop1830
twister1832
bail ball1833
bailer1833
grubber1837
slow ball1838
wide1838
ground ball1839
shooter1843
slower ball1846
twiddler1847
creeper1848
lob1851
sneak1851
sneaker1851
slow1854
bumper1855
teaser1856
daisy-cutter1857
popper1857
yorker1861
sharpshooter1863
headball1866
screwball1866
underhand1866
skimmerc1868
grub1870
ramrod1870
raymonder1870
round-armer1871
grass cutter1876
short pitch1877
leg break1878
lob ball1880
off-break1883
donkey-drop1888
tice1888
fast break1889
leg-breaker1892
kicker1894
spinner1895
wrong 'un1897
googly1903
fizzer1904
dolly1906
short ball1911
wrong 'un1911
bosie1912
bouncer1913
flyer1913
percher1913
finger-spinner1920
inswinger1920
outswinger1920
swinger1920
off-spinner1924
away swinger1925
Chinaman1929
overspinner1930
tweaker1938
riser1944
leg-cutter1949
seamer1952
leggy1954
off-cutter1955
squatter1955
flipper1959
lifter1959
cutter1960
beamer1961
loosener1962
doosra1999
1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field vii. 148 The balls may be regularly rising: in this case every one would like to see a good cutter at the wicket.
1955 Times 15 July 3/3 Palmer..is a particularly effective driver and cutter.
1960 I. Peebles Bowler's Turn 40 By way of variation he bowled a cutter.
1966 E. R. Dexter Ted Dexter Declares ii. 21 They gave me a bit of bowling and I started with medium-pace swingers and off cutters.
6. Mining. A crack or fissure intersecting the bedding or lines of stratification; the cleavage of slate (usually in plural); a crack in a crystal or precious stone. dialect.
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1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) 15 A soft sandy stone, so open in the cutters, and so loose, that the ground above it can have very little moisture.
1788 J. Hutton in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 1 259 A stratum of porous sandstone does not abound so much with veins and cutters as a similar stratum of marble.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 34 Slates..of a muddy brown complexion along the cutters.
1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 136 Cutters, a quarryman's term for any narrow crack or fissure that cuts or crosses the strata; hence ‘backs and cutters’ for what is known to geologists as the jointed structure.
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a. A superior quality of brick, which can be cut and rubbed, called also cutting brick; used for arches of doorways and windows, quoins, etc.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > types of
white brick1468
red brick1587
clinker1659
clinkerc1660
stock-brick1683
Windsor brick1702
grey stock1726
stockc1738
red stock1748
firebrick1749
Welsh lump1798
malm1811
cutting-brick1815
pecking1819
blue brick1823
malm brick1824
Windsor1841
cutter1842
grizzle1843
shuff1843
picking1850
Woolpit brick1887
Hollander1897
Staffordshire1898
Stafford brick1908
misfire1923
klompie1926
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. ii. 503 The finest marl stocks..are technically called firsts, or cutters... There is also a red cutting brick, whose texture is similar to the malm cutter, which must not be confounded with the red stock.
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1152 The bricks are sorted into classes known as cutters..picked stocks, etc.
b. An animal yielding an inferior grade of meat. Originally U.S.
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the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > fatted animal (for slaughter) > yielding inferior meat
canner1889
cutter1905
1905 Chicago Daily News 3 July 7/7 Canners and cutters were rather slow, as packers did not care to secure them.
1916 Yorks. Post 23 Feb. 10/6 Pigs continue to rise in value, 6d extra per score being charged for cutters and sows.
1958 Times 1 July (Agric. Suppl.) p. iii/4 Any line of demarcation between porkers and the rather heavier ‘cutters’ (near bacon weights) has practically disappeared.
1971 Daily Hampshire Gaz. (Northampton, Mass.) 12 Feb. 5/5 Prices per cwt. were:..24 cutters, up to $21.90.
Compounds
C1. Chiefly belonging to sense 4, as cutter-block, cutter-frame, cutter-screw, cutter-stock, various parts of cutting-machines or cutting-tools.
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1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 217 If we suppose the cutter, or rather the cutter-frame to move upon a pivot.
1833 Manuf. Metal II. 130 This cutter-block is constructed to slide upon the hollow cast iron shaft..a metal stopper inside connected with the cutter-head by pins.
1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 80 Cutter-screws and bolts should be made of the very best refined iron.
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cutter-bar n. (a) a bar in which cutting-tools are so fastened as to serve for circular cutting, as in a machine for boring the inside of cylinders; (b) the bar in a mowing or reaping machine that bears the knives.
cutter-dredge n. = cutter-dredger n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > earth-moving and excavating equipment > [noun] > dredging equipment
dredge1471
clam-shell1508
drag1611
steam dredge1801
dredging-machine1830
hedgehog1838
bag and spoon1840
hydrophore1842
dredger1863
gold dredge1881
gold dredger1897
suction dredge1901
bucket dredge1907
cutter-dredge1913
1913 B. F. Thomas & D. A. Watt Improvem. Rivers (ed. 2) i. 100 The cutter dredge,..in which the material is loosened by a series of knives shaped so that they will not clog, fastened to a shaft and revolving close to the end of the suction pipe.
cutter-dredger n. a river-dredge fitted with knives.
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1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 218/2 Cutter dredger, a dredger of the sand-pump or suction type.
cutter-grinder n. an implement for sharpening the cutters of reaping machines, etc.
cutter-head n. the revolving head of a tool with cutters or sharpened edges.
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1833 Manuf. Metal II. 130 This cutter-block is constructed to slide upon the hollow cast iron shaft..a metal stopper inside connected with the cutter-head by pins.
cutter-loader n. a machine that cuts coal from a coal-face and loads it on a conveyor.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > coal-cutting machines
iron man1827
overcutter1946
plough1946
cutter-loader1948
shearer1956
trepanner1956
1948 Something Done (Central Office of Information) 19/2 Besides the Meco-Moore, two other British cutter-loaders are now in the advanced experimental stage.
cutter-wheel n. a wheel serving for cutting.
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1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 231 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI We are aware that planing machines have been made with cutters on the face of the cutter wheel.
1862 Chambers's Encycl. at Cork Cutter-wheels and other suitable machines are brought to bear on the revolving cork.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
cuttern.2
/ˈkʌtə/, U.S. /ˈkədər/ Nautical.
1. A boat, belonging to a ship of war, shorter and in proportion broader than the barge or pinnace, fitted for rowing and sailing, and used for carrying light stores, passengers, etc.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > boat attendant on larger vessel > [noun] > ship's boat > types of
float-boat1322
cocka1400
cockboat1413
longboat1421
cogc1430
cog boat1440
espyne1487
jolywat1495
barge1530
fly-boat1598
gondola1626
cocket-boat1668
yawl1670
whale-boat1682
pinnace1685
launch1697
jolly-boat1728
cutter1745
gig1790
pram1807
jolly1829
whaler1893
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 284 I have seen and heard six Times more Confusion..and Hurry in hoisting out one Cutter (or small Boat).
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xiii. 276 The inconsiderable size of a Cutter belonging to a sixty gun ship, (being only an open boat about twenty-two feet in length).
1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. vi. ix. 441 Two seamen belonging to the Resolution found means to run off with a six-oared cutter.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 9 Cutters are used as despatch boats and for light work, such as answering signals, rowing guard, picking up a man overboard, or to assist in towing.
2. A small, single-masted vessel, clinker- or carvel-built, furnished with a straight running bowsprit, and rigged much like a sloop, carrying a fore-and-aft main-sail, gaff-top-sail, stay-foresail, and jib; a style of building and rigging now much used in yachts.According to an old French engraving of a naval action in 1779, and D. Steel Elements Rigging & Seamanship 1794, vol. I. last plate, the cutters of that time were rigged like the half of an old schooner, with square topsails.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > with specific rig > fore and aft rigged > cutter
cutter1762
cutter-yacht1885
1762 Capt. Everitt in Naval Chron. 13 30 Let the Lurcher Cutter attend the Boats.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Cutter, a small vessel commonly navigated in the channel of England; it is furnished with one mast, and rigged as a sloop. Many of these vessels are used on an illicit trade, and others employed by the government to seize them.
1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 14 The Rambler cutter was..engaged..with a French cutter.
1892 Whitaker's Almanack 606/1 In the first-class division, Mr. John Jameson's cutter, Iverna, built in 1890, headed the winning list.
3. transferred. A small light sledge or sleigh for one or two persons. Canadian and U.S.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > for transport of people
sled1590
sledge1617
traineau1653
sleigh1703
pulka1746
booby-hutch1766
Tom Pung1799
cutter1803
pung1804
kibitka1806
booby-hack1820
pulk1831
booby1841
sleigh-cutter1846
clipper-sled1883
1803 T. G. Fessenden Poet. Petition ii. 37 Then condescend to be my crony, And guide my wild Parnassian pony, Till our aerial cutter runs Athwart ‘a wilderness of suns’!
1811 Massachusetts Spy 1 May The horse and cutter advertised in your paper has been found... The post bags which were in the cutter, [etc.].
1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 207 The usual equipages for travelling are the double sleigh..and cutter; the two former are drawn by two horses abreast, but the latter..has but one.
1858 B. Taylor Northern Trav. xv. 155 The sleighing was superb. How I longed for a dashing American cutter, with a span of fast horses.
1887 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 261 The dainty Canadian ‘cutter’, with its..curved..runners.
1912 D. F. Canfield Squirrel Cage i. ix. 88 Women used to sleigh-ride in a little cutter just big enough for one and a half.
Compounds
C1. cutter-built, cutter-rigged, adjs.
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1799 Naval Chron. 1 261 The Perseverance [is] cutter-rigged.
1803 Naval Chron. 10 333 The squadron has sent in the..brig l'Aiguille..cutter built.
C2.
cutter-brig n. ‘a vessel with square sails, a fore-and-aft main-sail, and a jigger-mast with a smaller one’ (Smyth); formerly brig cutter.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > with specific rig > combining qualities of two types > brig or brigantine
vergantine1578
demi-galliot1632
brigantine1695
brig1720
cutter-brig1805
collier-brig1853
jackass brig1878
1799 Naval Chron. 1 255 They were met by a brig cutter.]
1805 Naval Chron. 14 340 Two large French Cutter Brigs ran alongside.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 101 In the Royal Navy, when cutter-built vessels are thus rigged, they are called Cutter Brigs.
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cutter-gig n. a boat of a size between a cutter and a gig.
cutter-yacht n. a yacht built and rigged like a cutter.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > yacht > types of yacht
steam-yacht1812
skimmer1844
schooner-yacht1876
cruiser1879
keel1883
skimming-dish1884
cutter-yacht1885
bulb-keel1893
keel-boat1893
forty1894
half-rater1894
forty-tonner1895
one-designer1897
raceabout1897
forty-footer1902
sonder1907
star1911
tonnage-cheater1912
scow1929
tabloid1930
Yngling1969
maxi yacht1974
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > with specific rig > fore and aft rigged > cutter
cutter1762
cutter-yacht1885
1885 A. Brassey In Trades 309 We passed the bishop's smart little cutter-yacht.
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† cuttern.3
Obsolete.
= gutter n.1 5b.
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1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Cutters, the little Streaks in the Beam of a Deer.
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cutterv.
northern dialect.
1. intransitive.
a. To whisper; to talk privately and confidentially.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > whisper
whisperc950
roundOE
tutel?c1225
whistera1382
mumc1390
runka1500
susurr1529
whista1555
susurrate1623
rewhisper1753
cutter1781
whittie-whattie1821
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. Cutter, to whisper.
1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 64 I' th' pantry the sweethearters cutter'd sae soft.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words Cuttering, talking low. ‘They sat hottering and cuttering over the fire.’
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Cutter, to whisper.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Cutter, to whisper or talk softly.
b. To coo like a pigeon.
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1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Cutterin, cooing like a pigeon.
2. To fondle, make much of. [Cf. cuiter v. ]
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1763 ‘T. Bobbin’ Toy-shop (new ed.) To Rdr. p. ix I dunnaw meeon heaw fok harbort'n't or cuttertn't o'er thee.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Cutter, to fondle, or make much of, as a hen or goose of her young.
1825 in J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words
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