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cutter
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cutter is typically a small, but in some cases a medium-sized, watercraft designed for speed rather than for capacity. Traditionally a cutter sailing vessel is a small single-masted boat, fore-and-aft rigged , with two or more headsails and often a bowsprit ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cookie cutter cookie cutter ▪ the cookie cutter approach of the urban renewal programme wire cutters COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN cookie ▪ My knees were tapped with hammers, cookie cutters were rolled over my skin, ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person or device that cuts (in various senses). 2 (context nautical English) 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 A foretooth; an incisor. 4 A heavy-duty ...
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.