Noun

(en noun)

(label) A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.

* 1789 , (Olaudah Equiano) (Gustavus Vassa), (The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano) ,

I stayed in this island for a few days; I believe it could not be above a fortnight; when I and some few more slaves, that were not saleable amongst the rest, from very much fretting, were shipped off in a sloop for North America.

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(label) A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.

A sloop of war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.

Noun

(en noun)

A person or device that cuts (in various senses).

a stone cutter'''; a die '''cutter

* 1988 , Jorge Amado, Home is the Sailor (page 55)

Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes.

(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.

(Ray)

A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.

a coastguard cutter .

(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]:

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.