cutter

CEFRB1

/ˈkʌtɚ/

noun

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Examples

Mary made some star-shaped gingerbread cookies using a star-shaped cookie cutter.
Yanni stripped the wire with a box cutter.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
A foretooth; an incisor.

In context

Yanni works as a meat cutter.
In some CNC programs, the diameter of the cutter (such as an end mill) is handled by cutter compensation codes.
a stone cutter; a die cutter

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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
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
Throughout much of the winter, the sled or the cutter was the vehicle of choice. Emily and Joseph had a cutter, for traveling in style in snow.
2007, Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, page 55

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From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.