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cutter

ˈkətər
WordNet
Model of a 20-piece cutter
Model of a 20-piece cutter
Polychrome, rigged block model of a 20-piece cutter. It has eighteen pieces (two are missing) on the open deck. The stem is bent. Flat mirror, hollow wulf polychrome painted with drapes, closed fence polychrome painted with a seated woman with anchor in front of the sea with ship; straight rudder with square rudder stock and tiller on deck, strongly falling stern. The sheer rises slightly to both ends, one bar wood. The underwater hull is a sharply peaked round bilge with a large steering load. The model is equipped with two anchors, a frying spindle, two pumps and several hatches. The harness is a single-masted gaff harness and has a knitting jib.
  1. (n) cutter
    a cutting implement; a tool for cutting
  2. (n) cutter
    a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop
  3. (n) cutter
    a boat for communication between ship and shore
  4. (n) cutter
    someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
  5. (n) cutter
    someone who carves the meat
  6. (n) cutter
    someone who cuts or carves stone
Illustrations
The boulder cutter or the witch of Mallegem. In the midst of a group of fools, a quack performs an operation by the light of a lantern in which a boulder is cut from the patient's head. To the right a screaming woman seated on the shoulders of an old woman. Right for cutting pebbles into a large egg. In the background a water mill and fantastic creatures.
The boulder cutter or the witch of Mallegem. In the midst of a group of fools, a quack performs an operation by the light of a lantern in which a boulder is cut from the patient's head. To the right a screaming woman seated on the shoulders of an old woman. Right for cutting pebbles into a large egg. In the background a water mill and fantastic creatures.
Portrait of Joan Michaël Fleischmann, type cutter and printer in Haarlem. On the pedestal are compass, square, book and hammer.
Portrait of Joan Michaël Fleischmann, type cutter and printer in Haarlem. On the pedestal are compass, square, book and hammer.
Polychrome block model (?) (Starboard) of a one-mast cutter. Vertical stem. Overhanging gate with small flat fence sign; rudder with round rudder stock (American rudder) and rounded rudder blade. On deck a deck superstructure and an entrance. The sheer rises slightly to both ends, a roe wood. V-shaped underwater hull with a lot of steering load. The bowsprit is next to the bow. Scale 1:25 (scale on model).
Polychrome block model (?) (Starboard) of a one-mast cutter. Vertical stem. Overhanging gate with small flat fence sign; rudder with round rudder stock (American rudder) and rounded rudder blade. On deck a deck superstructure and an entrance. The sheer rises slightly to both ends, a roe wood. V-shaped underwater hull with a lot of steering load. The bowsprit is next to the bow. Scale 1:25 (scale on model).
Very detailed block model with round wood of a pilot cutter, on brass stand. The vessel has one flat deck. It has a straight, sharp cutter bow, and an overhanging gate decorated with leaf work, a shell and the inscription. Rudder with round rudder stock (American rudder) and brass tiller on deck. On the deck an entrance and a deckhouse; all ironwork done in detail, winches, pumps etc. The sheer rises slightly to the front and to the rear, one roe wood. The hull shape is a sharp S-shaped frame. The spar consists of a mast with stem, very long gaff and boom, and a bowsprit that can be retracted and extended by means of a rack on a winch.
Model of a pilot cutter
Model of a French pilot cutter, with a weighted keel.
Model of a French pilot cutter
Polychrome mold model (starboard) of a one master. Twisted mirror, hollow wulf, closed gate, stern falling stern; straight rudder with square rudder stock. The sheer rises sharply towards the rear, one bark wood and one roe wood. Peaked round bilge, sharp underwater hull, a lot of steering load. Strongly reclined mast.
Polychrome mold model (starboard) of a one master. Twisted mirror, hollow wulf, closed gate, stern falling stern; straight rudder with square rudder stock. The sheer rises sharply towards the rear, one bark wood and one roe wood. Peaked round bilge, sharp underwater hull, a lot of steering load. Strongly reclined mast.
Model of a rigged cutter yacht.
Model of a cutter yacht
Rigged and polychrome model of a clinker-built cutter. Thirteen of the eighteen pieces have been preserved. The ship has a slightly curved bow and a sharp bow; small flat mirror, large hollow wulf painted with drapery, and a small gate with inscription in winged cartouche, and davits. Falling stern with straight rudder with square rudder stock in broeking, wooden tiller in steering tiller on deck. The model has an upper and lower deck. On the upper deck a deckhouse, entrance and three hatches. The model also features a separate galley on the foredeck, two stick anchors, a double capstan, a rigging winch on the servant behind the mast, two pumps, a ship's bell, a convenience and fourteen oars. The sheer rises to both ends, the model has one bar wood. Sharp S-frame with large steering load. The model has a cutter rig with sails, consisting of jib, stay jib, breefok, fats, topsail with studding sails, flying topsail and mainsail with breadwinner; two damaged tricolor belong to the model.
Model of an 18-piece war cutter
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Cutter
    (Naut) A boat used by ships of war.
  2. Cutter
    (Naut) 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. Cutter
    A fore tooth; an incisor.
  4. Cutter
    A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut.
  5. Cutter
    A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
  6. Cutter
    (Naut) A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; -- also called revenue cutter.
  7. Cutter
    A small, light one-horse sleigh.
  8. Cutter
    An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
  9. Cutter
    (Naut) 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.
  10. Cutter
    One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.
  11. Cutter
    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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) cutter
    One who cuts or hews; one who shapes or forms anything by cutting.
  2. (n) cutter
    Specifically— Formerly, an officer in the English exchequer whose office it was to provide wood for the tallies, and to cut on them the sums paid. See tally.
  3. (n) cutter
    In tailoring, one who measures and cuts out cloth for garments, or cuts it according to measurements made by another.
  4. (n) cutter
    A bully; a bravo; a swaggering fellow; a sharper; a robber. Also cuttle.
  5. (n) cutter
    That which cuts; an instrument or tool, or a part of one, that cuts: as, a straw-cutter; the cutters of a boring-machine.
  6. (n) cutter
    Specifically— The broad chisel-edge of a center-bit, lying between the nicker, or outer knife-edge, and the center, or pin.
  7. (n) cutter
    A knife or an indenting-tool used in testing the explosive pressure of powder in large guns. See pressure-gage.
  8. (n) cutter
    In diamond-cutting, a wooden hand-tool in which that one of two diamonds undergoing cutting which is least advanced is cemented. The other stone is cemented in the setter, and the two are then rubbed together.
  9. (n) cutter
    A wad-punch. E. H. Knight.
  10. (n) cutter
    An upright chisel on an anvil; a hack-iron. E. H. Knight.
  11. (n) cutter
    A file-chisel. E. H. Knight.
  12. (n) cutter
    In agriculture, a colter.
  13. (n) cutter
    A fore tooth that cuts, as distinguished from a grinder; an incisor.
  14. (n) cutter
    Naut.: A double-banked boat used by ships of war.
  15. (n) cutter
    A small vessel with a single mast, a mainsail, a forestaysail, and a jib set to bowsprit end. Cutter-yachts are sloop-rigged vessels, and the name is now generally applied to sloops of considerable draft and comparatively small beam.—4. A small light sleigh, with a single seat for one or two persons, usually drawn by one horse.
  16. (n) cutter
    In mining: A joint or crack, generally one which intersects or crosses a better-defined system of cracks or joints in the same rock.
  17. (n) cutter
    In coal-mining, the system of joint-planes in the coal which is of secondary importance, being not so well developed as another set called the back, face, or cleat of the coal: generally used in the plural: as, backs and cutters.
  18. (n) cutter
    b In mineralogy, a crack in the substance of a crystal, which destroys or greatly lessens its value as a lapidaries' stone.
  19. (n) cutter
    A soft yellow malmbrick, used for face-work, from the facility with which it can be cut or rubbed down.
  20. (n) cutter
    In a weavers' loom, the box which contains the quills.
  21. cutter
    To speak low; whisper; murmur, as a dove.
  22. cutter
    To fondle.
  23. (n) cutter
    A vessel of the government revenue marine which is known as the revenue-cutter service.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Cutter
    the person or thing that cuts: in a tailor's shop, the one who measures and cuts out the cloth: a small vessel with one mast, a mainsail, a forestaysail, and a jib set to bowsprit-end, any sloop of narrow beam and deep draught
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Prob. W. cwtau, shorten.

Usage in the news

Box cutter, boards reported missing after killing, but cash was still there. freep.com

Picaridin, long used to repel mosquitoes in other parts of the world, is now available in the US under the Cutter Advanced brand name. illinoistimes.com

The Coast Guard Cutter Resolute works near the "City at Sea" at the site of the BP oil spill Tuesday afternoon. marinelink.com

The Resolute , a medium-endurance cutter based in St Petersburg, Fla. marinelink.com

The RTC1 Manual Feed Rigid Tubing Cutter processes material from 3/32 in. mdtmag.com

The typical approach might take a 0.2-inch deep cut using as much of the cutter diameter as possible, leaving a level floor at this depth. mmsonline.com

Introduced for the first time at EMO 2007, the Scudding process is a continuous cutting operation that uses a tool design similar to a helical shaper cutter. geartechnology.com

Grocers and meat cutters in Bonney Lake and across Pierce County ratified a three-year labor contract last week, ending a four month dispute. courierherald.com

And helix motion of the cutter spindle (electronic guide). mmsonline.com

Has started construction on the Hamilton, the company's fourth Legend-class national security cutter for the US Coast Guard. nola.com

View full size US Coast Guard National security cutters Waesche and Bertholf. nola.com

Joe Cutter 2 days ago. nj1015.com

The two manufacturers have paired up iSys Label's newest digital label printer, the EDGE 850, with the Eclipse LF3 Digital Cutter to create a one of a kind solution for the short run label market. labelandnarrowweb.com

There are three main types of die cutting technology: platen presses, rotary die cutters and optically registered gap presses. americanprinter.com

Applied Diamond Tools/Toolocity.com of Chesterfield, MO, has introduced the Cutter's Way 5-inch Wet Stone Cutter to the market. stoneworld.com

Usage in scientific papers

Rand, The singularity spectrum f (α) for cookie-cutters, Ergod.
The Graph and Range Singularity Spectra of Random Wavelet Series built from Gibbs measures

Since both directed and separating are key words of other, widely-used, mathematical entities, Cegielski and Censor have recently introduced the term cutter operators .
Algorithms for the Split Variational Inequality Problem

Since both directed and separating are key words of other, widely-used, mathematical entities, Cegielski and Censor have recently introduced the term cutter operators .
Algorithms for the Split Variational Inequality Problem

Repellers of this type are often called cookie cutters and the Hausdorff dimension can be computed via the thermodynamical formalism.
Dimension and measure for typical random fractals

P p (Fu ) < ∞ ∞ if supu∈Ω P p (Fu ) = ∞ In particular, for a typical ω ∈ Ω, the random cookie cutter Fω is ‘dimensionless’ in the sense that neither the s-dimensional Hausdorff measure nor the s-dimensional packing measure are positive and finite for any s (cid:62) 0.
Dimension and measure for typical random fractals

Usage in literature

The usual tale of workmen in the fat years was five hundred quarrymen and three hundred stone-cutters. "Flamsted quarries" by Mary E. Waller

Once the cutter did a steady nine knots for thirty hours. "Yorke The Adventurer" by Louis Becke

The vice-principal said nothing to the discomfited crew of the first cutter, but gave his orders to chase the second cutter. "Down the Rhine" by Oliver Optic

The cutter was lowered, together with the two lifeboats, for use in case of need. "A Boy's Voyage Round the World" by The Son of Samuel Smiles

The two cutters were accordingly lowered to take hawsers to the barque. "The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader" by W.H.G. Kingston

He had not been gone five minutes when there was a sound of sleighbells, and a cutter, drawn by a spirited horse, dashed up to the gate. "Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach" by Annie Roe Carr

So the sooner we get across in the cutter and get this man-hunting business over the better I'll like it. "Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories" by Louis Becke

Then, watching our opportunity to lower away, we managed so to time it that the cutter lighted on the crest of one of the rollers. "Crown and Anchor" by John Conroy Hutcheson

All day long the rain continued; but I got on board the cutter, and spent some time in writing up my journal. "A Yacht Voyage Round England" by W.H.G. Kingston

This thread can now be cut off with the pipe cutters. "Elements of Plumbing" by Samuel Dibble

Usage in poetry
Then the wood-cutter gave a golden coin away,
So the crowd subscribed largely without delay;
Which made the poor boy's heart feel gay,
Then the wood-cutter thanked the crowd and went away.
"A Tale of Christmas Eve" by William Topaz McGonagall
Until a poor wood-cutter chanced to come along,
And he asked of the crowd what was wrong;
And twenty ready tongues tells him the sad tale,
And when he heard it the poor boy's fate he did bewail.
"A Tale of Christmas Eve" by William Topaz McGonagall
So his father tried to check him, but all wouldn't do,
And John joined a revenue cutter as one of its crew;
And when his father heard it he bitterly did moan,
And angrily forbade him never to return home.
"John Rouat the Fisherman" by William Topaz McGonagall
But they all allow that Sutter had begun a kind of mutter, when
uprose Mr. Cutter with a sickening kind of ease,
And proceeded then to wade in to the subject then prevadin': "Is
Profanity degradin'?" in words like unto these:
"A Question Of Privilege" by Francis Bret Harte
"Onlike the previous speaker, Mr. Sutter of Yreka, he was but a
humble seeker--and not like him--a cuss"--
It was here that Mr. Sutter softly reached for Mr. Cutter, when the
latter with a stutter said: "ac-customed to discuss."
"A Question Of Privilege" by Francis Bret Harte
Then one of the ship's cutters was carefully lowered over the side,
And her crew towards the shore merrily did glide,
And succeeded in reaching the shore with a leading line,
And two boats were conveyed to the sinking ship just in time.
"The Wreck of the 'Abercrombie Robinson'" by William Topaz McGonagall