Cut"ter (k?t"t?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.) (a) A
boat used by ships of war. (b) 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. (c) 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.)
(a) A bar which carries a cutter or cutting
tool, as in a boring machine. (b) 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.
