different between cutter vs gutter

English

Etymology

cut +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?(?)

Noun

cutter (plural cutters)

1. A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
   • 1982, The Movies (page 288)

     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).

   • 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.

2. (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.
3. A foretooth; an incisor.
4. A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.

5. (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
6. (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
7. (baseball) A cut fastball.
8. (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
9. (slang) A person who practices self-injury.
10. (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.

    Synonym: slasher

11. An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.

    Coordinate terms: canner, darkcutter

    • 1905, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Beef Industry (page 89)

      Bulls and cows used for breeding, when finally sent to market, are inferior for dressed-beef production. Bulls are demanded especially for sausage and similar products. Cows are largely used as cutters and canners […]

12. (obsolete) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
13. (obsolete) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
    • Martin Parker, A True Tale of Robin Hood

      So being outlaw'd (as 'tis told), / He with a crew went forth / Of lusty cutters, bold and strong, / And robbed in the north.

    • 1633, A Match at Midnight (disputed authorship)

      He's out of cash, and thou know'st by cutter's law, / We are bound to relieve one another.

14. (obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
15. A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
    • 2007, Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, page 55 [1]:

      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.

Derived terms

• cane cutter
• copy cutter
• glass cutter
• wire cutters
• revenue cutter

Translations

French

Noun

cutter m (plural cutters)

1. cutter, boxcutter, utility knife, Stanley knife
2. (nautical) cutter (vessel)

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???t.?/, /???t?.?/
• Rhymes: -?t?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English gutter, guttur, goter, from Anglo-Norman guttere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”).

Noun

gutter (plural gutters)

1. A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
2. A ditch along the side of a road.
3. A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.

4. (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.

5. A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
6. Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
7. (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
8. (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
9. (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
10. (Britain) A drainage channel.
11. The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
12. (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.

13. (comics) The spaces between comic book panels

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: gotro

Translations

See also

• gutter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• gout

Verb

gutter (third-person singular simple present gutters, present participle guttering, simple past and past participle guttered)

1. To flow or stream; to form gutters. [from late 14th c.]
2. (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle. [from early 18th c.]
3. (of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
4. (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
5. (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

6. (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.

Translations

Etymology 2

gut +? -er

Noun

gutter (plural gutters)

1. One who or that which guts.
   • 1921, Bernie Babcock, The Coming of the King (page 151)

     A Galilean Rabbi? When did this Province of diggers in dirt and gutters of fish send forth Rabbis? Thou makest a jest.

   • 2013, Don Keith, Shelley Stewart, Mattie C.'s Boy: The Shelley Stewart Story (page 34)

     An old, rusty coat hanger made a rudimentary fish-gutter.

Danish

Noun

gutter c

1. indefinite plural of gut

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Noun

gutter m

1. indefinite plural of gutt