Cutter

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.
4. A small, light one-horse sleigh.
5. An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
6. A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
7. A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut.
1. A boat used by ships of war.
2. A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower and deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead.
3. In the United States, a sailing vessel with one mast and a bowsprit, setting one or two headsails. In Great Britain and Europe, a cutter sets two headsails, with or without a bowsprit.
4. A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; -- also called revenue cutter.
Cutter bar
1. A bar which carries a cutter or cutting tool, as in a boring machine.
2. 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.