cutter

About 2.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A person or device that cuts (in various senses).

   a stone cutter; a die cutter

2. noun 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. noun A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose

   a coastguard cutter.

4. noun A foretooth; an incisor.
5. noun A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
6. noun A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
7. noun A cut fastball.
8. noun A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.

Similar words

carver cutlery cutting tool stone cutter razor chopper blade knife sledge cutting

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