Cutter Meaning
/ˈkʌtɚ/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA person or device that cuts (in various senses).
nounA single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
Sentence Examples
Mary made some star-shaped gingerbread cookies using a star-shaped cookie cutter.
Yanni works as a meat cutter.
Yanni stripped the wire with a box cutter.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The pizza ____ made slicing the pizza quick and easy.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Mary made some star-shaped gingerbread cookies using a star-shaped cookie ____.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The intervening years, however, were spent as a cutter. He was, indeed, one of the best film editors in the business, winning an Academy Award for Body and Soul (1947)."
— 1982, The Movies, page 288:
"Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes."
— 1988, Jorge Amado, Home is the Sailor, page 55:
"the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root"
— 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
"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, Leona Davis, Past, Future, and End, FriesenPress, page 33:
"Bulls and cows used for breeding, when finally sent to market, are inferior for dressed-beef production. Bulls are demanded especially for sausage and similar products. Cows are largely used as cutters and canners […]"
— 1905, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Beef Industry, page 89:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The pizza ____ made slicing the pizza quick and easy.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Mary made some star-shaped gingerbread cookies using a star-shaped cookie ____.