Cutter vs Curter - What's the difference?
cutter | curter |
A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
* 1988 , Jorge Amado, Home is the Sailor (page 55)
(nautical) 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 foretooth; an incisor.
A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.
(nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
(cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
(baseball) A cut fastball.
(slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
(slang) A person who practices self-injury.
(obsolete) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
(obsolete) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
(obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
* 2007 , Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm , U of Minnesota Press, page 55 [http://books.google.com/books?id=IaJGWqZk7fYC&pg=RA1-PA55&dq=cutter+snow+horse]:
(curt)
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Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
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Short or concise.
As a noun cutter
is a person or device that cuts (in various senses).As an adjective curter is
(curt).cutter
English
Noun
(en noun)- a stone cutter'''; a die '''cutter
- Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes.
- (Ray)
- a coastguard cutter .
- 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.
