different between cutter vs pinnace

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

Etymology

From Middle French pinasse, from Spanish pinaza, from pino (“pine”) + -aza.

Noun

pinnace (plural pinnaces)

1. (nautical) A light boat, traditionally propelled by sails, but sometimes a rowboat. Pinnaces are usually messenger boats, carrying messages among the larger ships of a fleet.

Further reading

• pinnace on Wikipedia.Wikipedia