What is "cutter"

Cutter \Cut"ter\ (k[u^]t"t[~e]r), n.

1. One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.

2. 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, or as a paper cutter.

3. A fore tooth; an incisor.
   --Ray.

4. (Naut.)

   1. A boat used by ships of war.

   2. A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower and deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead.

   3. In the United States, a sailing vessel with one mast and a bowsprit, setting one or two headsails. In Great Britain and Europe, a cutter sets two headsails, with or without a bowsprit.

   4. A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; -- also called revenue cutter.

5. A small, light one-horse sleigh.

6. An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.

7. A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer. [Obs.]

8. A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut. Cutter bar. (Mach.)

   1. A bar which carries a cutter or cutting tool, as in a boring machine.

   2. The bar to which the triangular knives of a harvester are attached.

      Cutter head (Mach.), a rotating head, which itself forms a cutter, or a rotating stock to which cutters may be attached, as in a planing or matching machine.
      --Knight.

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.

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 motor boat for official use. 5 (context nautical English) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore. 6 (context cricket English) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut. 7 (context baseball English) A cut fastball. 8 (context slang English) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon. 9 (context slang English) A person who practices self-injury. 10 (context obsolete English) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tally the sums paid. 11 (context obsolete English) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer. 12 (context obsolete English) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework. 13 A light sleigh drawn by one horse.

1. n. someone who cuts or carves stone [syn: stonecutter]

2. someone who carves the meat [syn: carver]

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

4. a boat for communication between ship and shore [syn: tender, ship's boat, pinnace]

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 [syn: cutlery, cutting tool]

Cutter may refer to:

A cutter is an underground practitioner who performs voluntary surgical or quasi-surgical procedures that formal medical practitioners are unwilling or legally or ethically unable to perform. The procedures may be illegal in the particular jurisdiction in which they are performed, or of questionable legality. Procedures performed by cutters include castration, penectomy, penile subincision, tongue splitting, ear reshaping, and decorative implants.

Cutters may have some medical training, though not all do. They rarely advertise their services or their real names, and generally do their business via word of mouth.

Cutter is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and cartoon series. He is the G.I. Joe Team's hovercraft pilot and debuted in 1984.

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. The cutter's mast may be set farther back than on a sloop.

In modern usage, a cutter can be either a small- or medium-sized vessel whose occupants exercise official authority. Examples are harbor pilots' cutters and cutters of the U.S. Coast Guard or UK Border Force.

Cutters can also be a small boat serving a larger one to ferry passengers or light stores between larger boats and the shore. This type of cutter may be powered by oars, sails or a motor.

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 with more motion than a typical fastball. Some pitchers use a cutter as a way to prevent hitters from expecting their regular fastballs. A common technique used to throw a cutter is to use a four-seam fastball grip with the baseball set slightly off center in the hand. When a batter is able to hit a cutter pitch, it often results in soft contact and an easy out, due to the pitch's movement keeping the ball away from the bat's sweet spot. The cutter is typically 2–5 mph slower than a pitcher's four-seam fastball. In 2010, the average pitch classified as a cutter by PITCHf/x thrown by a right-handed pitcher was 88.6 mph; the average four-seamer was 92.1 mph.

In professional wrestling, a cutter is a ¾ facelock front face bulldog maneuver. This move sees an attacking wrestler first apply a ¾ facelock (reaching back and grabbing the head of an opponent, thus pulling the opponent's jaw above the wrestler's shoulder) before falling backwards (sometimes after running forwards first) to force the opponent face-first to the mat below.

The cutter was innovated by Johnny Ace, who called it the Ace Crusher. It was later popularized by Diamond Dallas Page, who called it the Diamond Cutter, which is where the move got its name. The cutter also formed the base for the later development of another professional wrestling move known as the stunner.

Cutter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Benjamin Cutter (1857–1910), American composer
• Bowman Cutter, American economist, political thinker and businessman
• Charles Ammi Cutter (1837–1903), American librarian
• Charles Cutter (MP), British member of Parliament
• Ephraim Cutter (1832–1917), American physician
• George W. Cutter (born 1849, date of death unknown), American sailor
• George Washington Cutter (died 1865), American poet
• Irving Samuel Cutter, American doctor, teacher of medicine and medical journalist
• John Cutter, American video game designer
• Kiki Cutter (born 1949), American alpine ski racer
• Kirtland Cutter (1860–1939), American architect
• Leonard R. Cutter (1825–1894), American politician
• Lise Cutter (born 1959), American actress
• Murray Cutter (1902-1983) American orchestrator
• Slade Cutter (1911–2005), American naval officer
• Stephanie Cutter (born 1968), American political consultant