Definitions for Cutter

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Cutter cut·ter

Spelling: [kuht-er]

IPA: /ˈkʌt ər/

Cutter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in Cutter (certtu).

Definitions for Cutter

noun

1. a person who cuts, especially as a job, as one who cuts fabric for garments.
2. a machine, tool, or other device for cutting.
3. Nautical. a single-masted sailing vessel, very similar to a sloop but having its mast set somewhat farther astern, about two-fifths of the way aft measured on the water line. a ship's boat having double-banked oars and one or two lugsails.
4. Also called revenue cutter. a lightly armed government vessel used to prevent smuggling and enforce the customs regulations.
5. a person who repeatedly inflicts self-injury by cutting the skin, as to cope with negative emotions.
6. a person employed as a film editor.
7. a small, light sleigh, usually single-seated and pulled by one horse.
8. Also called rubber. a brick suitable for cutting and rubbing.
9. a low-quality grade of beef between utility and canner. beef of this grade, mostly used in processed beef products, as sausage.
10. cut fastball.

adjective

1. (in U.S. government grading of beef) graded between utility and canner.

Origin of Cutter

First recorded in 1375-1425, cutter is from the Middle English word kittere, cuttere. See cut, -er¹

Examples for Cutter

The job—feeding massive paper reams into a cutter—paid 10 cents above minimum wage.

cutter became a media star and dispatched the utterly unfair blame leveled at her during the 2004 Kerry effort.

The cutter imitated this manoeuvre, and the boat of the wreck went last.

They're going to send a cutter for me to come and take Parker's place.

It is intended for two; won't you step out of the sleigh into the cutter?

Then cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, made a bad batch of vaccine, and 40,000 children were sickened with polio.

But the cutter slipped by and left him knee-deep, looking ruefully after them.

The hovel of a cutter of wood into lengths for burning, was the only house at that end; all else was wall.

The cutter does not need all the sizes because they can grade it without a pattern for each size.

Responding to Buzzfeed's Andrew Kaczynski, cutter then tweeted this gem: Update at 8:01 PM: Romney responds.