Cutter

·noun A boat used by ships of war.

II. Cutter ·noun A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.

III. Cutter ·noun A small, light one-horse sleigh.

IV. Cutter ·noun A fore tooth; an Incisor.

V. Cutter ·noun An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.

VI. Cutter ·noun One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; ·esp., one who cuts out garments.

VII. Cutter ·noun A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service;

— also called revenue cutter.

VIII. Cutter ·noun A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework;

— so called from the facility with which it can be cut.

IX. Cutter ·noun 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.

X. Cutter ·noun 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.