CUTTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cutter mean? 

• CUTTER (noun)
  The noun CUTTER has 6 senses:

1. someone who cuts or carves stone

2. someone who carves the meat

3. someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)

4. a boat for communication between ship and shore

5. a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop

6. a cutting implement; a tool for cutting

  Familiarity information: CUTTER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUTTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who cuts or carves stone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cutter; stonecutter

Hypernyms ("cutter" is a kind of...):

quarrier; quarryman (a man who works in a quarry)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who carves the meat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

carver; cutter

Hypernyms ("cutter" is a kind of...):

diner (a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("cutter" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cutter"):

garment cutter (someone who cuts cloth etc. to measure in making garments)

gem cutter (one who cuts and shapes precious stones)

glass-cutter; glass cutter (someone who cuts or grinds designs on glass)

Derivation:

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A boat for communication between ship and shore

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cutter; pinnace; ship's boat; tender

Hypernyms ("cutter" is a kind of...):

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cutter"):

gig (tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cutter" is a kind of...):

sailing ship; sailing vessel (a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A cutting implement; a tool for cutting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cutlery; cutter; cutting tool

Hypernyms ("cutter" is a kind of...):

cutting implement (a tool used for cutting or slicing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cutter"):

bolt cutter (an implement for cutting bolts)

cigar cutter (an implement for cutting the tip off of a cigar)

die (a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods)

edge tool (any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge))

glass cutter (a tool for cutting glass)

tile cutter (a cutter (tool for cutting) for floor tiles)

Derivation:

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

 Context examples 

Mr. Dance stood there, as he said, “like a fish out of water,” and all he could do was to dispatch a man to B— to warn the cutter.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Peat-cutters on Blackdown and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling upon the sultry summer air.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There’s Walker, of the Rose cutter, who, with thirteen men, engaged three French privateers with crews of a hundred and forty-six.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was painted black, and from the talk of the hunters of their poaching exploits I recognized it as a United States revenue cutter.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He had been a member of the crew of the smuggling schooner Halcyon when she was captured by a revenue cutter.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A cable designed to drive the rotational cutter of a catheter device.

(Cutter-Torque Cable Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

This is a first-class, up-to-date burgling kit, with nickel-plated jemmy, diamond-tipped glass-cutter, adaptable keys, and every modern improvement which the march of civilization demands.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I looked toward the cutter. It was very close. A boat was being lowered.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There’s as much seamanship and pluck in a good cutter action as in a line-o’-battleship fight, though you may not come by a title nor the thanks of Parliament for it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)