cutter
pronunciation
How to pronounce cutter in British English:
UK [ˈkʌtə(r)]
How to pronounce cutter in American English:
US [ˈkʌtɚ]
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- Noun:
- someone who cuts or carves stone
- someone who carves the meat
- someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop
- a cutting implement; a tool for cutting
Word Origin
- cutter (n.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. The team 's printer is built around a second-hand computer-controlled plasma cutter ( a device used for carving up sheets of metal ) .
- 2. After a day 's travel , the cutter got within a few miles of the craft and deployed the cutter 's fast boat and a helicopter .
- 3. Its new design studio in a converted warehouse near the hudson river includes a small factory complete with a couple of 3d printers , a laser cutter , milling machines , a spray-painting booth and other bits of equipment .