cutter

noun20

1. •
   A person or device that cuts (in various senses).

   • In some CNC programs, the diameter of the cutter (such as an end mill) is handled by cutter compensation codes.
2. •
   (informal) A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.

   • After I got out of the mental institution I was looking at t.v. show I was looking it a teenage girl who was a cutter her arm look just like my arm. — 2013
3. •
   (slang, disapproving) A surgeon.
4. •
   (slang) A knife.
5. •
   A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose

   • a coastguard cutter.
6. •
   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.
7. •
   A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
8. •
   A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
9. •
   A cut fastball.
10. •
    A light sleigh drawn by one horse.

    • Throughout much of the winter, the sled or the cutter was the vehicle of choice. Emily and Joseph had a cutter, for traveling in style in snow. — 2007
11. •
    A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.
12. •
    (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
13. •
    A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.

    • Flags and other cutters allow the DP or gaffer to throw large controlled shadows on parts of the scene. — 2012
14. •
    A foretooth; an incisor.

    • the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root — 1691
15. •
    An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
16. •
    (disapproving) A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
17. •
    An active child.

    • Hop out the ride with things and stuff Back the longest cutter, watch him cut him, [grate their neek trips?] up — 2021
18. •
    (no longer used) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
19. •
    (no longer used) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.

    • , A True Tale of Robin Hood So being outlaw'd (as 'tis told), / He with a crew went forth / Of lusty cutters, bold and strong, / And robbed in the north.
20. •
    (no longer used) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.