cutter
/ˈkʌtɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.70 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
noun
A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
noun
A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
noun
A cut fastball.
Example Sentences
- "a stone cutter; a die cutter"
- "In some CNC programs, the diameter of the cutter (such as an end mill) is handled by cutter compensation codes."
- "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)."
- "Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes."
- "a coastguard cutter."
- "the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: cutter
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkʌtɚ/
- British English: /ˈkʌtə/