Definition of cutter

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

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Cutter :: Cutter (n.) A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; -- also called revenue cutter..
Topsail :: Topsail (n.) In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship..
Lapicide :: Lapicide (n.) A stonecutter.
Cutter :: Cutter (n.) A boat used by ships of war.
Megachile :: Megachile (n.) A leaf-cutting bee of the genus Megachilus. See Leaf cutter, under Leaf..
Cutter :: Cutter (n.) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
Chalkcutter :: Chalkcutter (n.) A man who digs chalk.
Sloop :: Sloop (n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See
Corncutter :: Corncutter (n.) A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.
Cutter :: Cutter (n.) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
Mill :: Mill (n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter..
Cutter :: Cutter (n.) A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut..
Cutter :: Cutter (n.) A small, light one-horse sleigh..
Cutter :: Cutter (n.) A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead..
Hammer-dressed :: Hammer-dressed (a.) Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
Colter :: Colter (n.) A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard..
Draff :: Draff (n.) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter..
Hob :: Hob (n.) A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc..
Hay-cutter :: Hay-cutter (n.) A machine in which hay is chopped short, as fodder for cattle..
Fraise :: Fraise (n.) A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
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