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One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.

A man who digs chalk.

A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.

A machine in which hay is chopped short, as fodder for cattle.

To run quickly; to scurry; to scuttle. [Prov. Eng.]

One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.

An instrument to cut straw for fodder.

A plow for turning up grass land.

A person who cuts wood.

s in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern.

ols for dressing round holes. -- Boring tool (Metal Working), a cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes. Knight.

, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower. Gray. Chaff cutter, a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into "chaff" for the use of cattle.

A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard. [Written also coulter.]

A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.

to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.

In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel. [Hist. or Archaic] Fuller. The great dromond swinging from the quay. W. Morris.

edge of anything, as of a piece of metal. Edging machine, a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.

-- File blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file. -- File cutter, a maker of files. -- Second-cut file, a file having teeth of a grade next finer than bastard. -- Single-cut file, a file having only one set of parallel teeth; a float. -- Smooth file, a file having teeth so fine as to…

rosewood, and other hard woods. -- Flute pipe, an organ pipe having a sharp lip or wind-cutter which imparts vibrations to Knight.

ils bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See Schooner, Sloop, Cutter.