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Sloop's sister ship
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cutter
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In baseball , a cutter , or cut fastball , is a type of fastball which breaks slightly toward the pitcher 's glove side as it reaches home plate . This pitch is somewhere between a slider and a fastball, as it is usually thrown faster than a slider but ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 12c., "one who cuts" in any sense, agent noun from cut (v.). As a type of small, single-masted vessel, from 1762, earlier "boat belonging to a ship of war" (1745), perhaps so called from the notion of "cutting" through the water.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cutter \Cut"ter\ (k[u^]t"t[~e]r), n. One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments. That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who cuts or carves stone [syn: stonecutter ] someone who carves the meat [syn: carver ] someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments) a boat for communication between ship and shore [syn: tender , ship's boat , pinnace ] ...
Usage examples of cutter.
Set the mould in ice water, and, when the aspic is set, arrange upon it a decoration of cooked vegetables cut in shapes with French cutter, or fashion a conventional design or some flower.
The Israelis make them with wire cutters in the bipods and bottle openers on the butt.
He imagined a heliotype: Susullil by Judah by Elsie by Pomeroy with his blunderbuss, and he Cutter at the end beside the golem, all of them with the set-faced pride of the hunter.
They would have been appalled to know that modern cutters reduced the bulk of that stone from over seven hundred carats to a hundred and six.
Now, coper skippers have the same hatred for mission ships that they have for revenue cutters, for the former, by selling tobacco at low prices, keep the North Sea fishermen away from the copers, and so have spoiled their traffic in intoxicant drinks.
Leaving five men on the coper, to man it--three on deck and two in the saloon--he returned to his cutter, taking Charlie and Ping Wang with him.
As soon as they were aboard, the cutter started, escorting the coper into Grimsby.
Fred declared, as he recognised the officer of the revenue cutter, who had captured the coper in which his brother and Ping Wang were unwilling passengers.
The air was a mist of suspended blood around the patron god of assassins, and before Cutter drew his fourth breath since the battle began, it was over, and around Cotillion there was naught but corpses.
Calling the coxswain on deck, he directed that if they were attacked, the cutter should be kept ready for instant use, and in case the vessel was disabled, they would attempt to finish their journey in her.
The cutter Dorst commanded had been hit squarely by a pair of 20-cm plasma bolts fired at close range.
Shoalie and Fub sat at a table with Rube and a couple of other cutters in the cafeteria.
With the wire cutters in one hand, he unclipped his handbow from his belt and hefted it in the other hand.
In the summer after his graduation from high school he single-handed a thirty-one-foot Pacific Seacraft cutter in the San Francisco-to-Honolulu race, coming in third on corrected time.
He played with it for half an hour, using one instrument after the other, and finally gave his opinion that this is an impossible stone, even though he was holding it in his fingers, that the facets are cut exactly alike -- all the exact same size, which is impossible for even the most skilled diamond cutter.