different between sinker vs cutter

English

Etymology

sink +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??k?(?)/
• Rhymes: -??k?(?)

Noun

sinker (plural sinkers)

1. One who sinks something.
   • 1999, David Frank, J.B. McLachlan: A Biography

     McLachlan's value as a coal miner was enhanced by the specialized skill he learned as a shaft-sinker.

2. (fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink.

   Hook the sinker onto this loop.

3. (baseball) Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball.

   His sinkers drew one ground ball after another.

4. (construction) Sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
5. (slang) A doughnut; a biscuit.
   • 1926, Edna Ferber, Show Boat: A Novel, page 268

     Of the fifty cents, ten went for the glassy shoeshine; twenty-five for a boutonniere; ten for coffee and sinkers at the Cockeyed Bakery.

   • 2001, Gerald J. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862, page 148

     they improvised by opening a barrel of flour and letting each man dump in a quart of water (if he had one) and scoop out a handful of dough to bake into rock-hard sinkers.

   • 2003, William W. Johnstone, Ambush Of The Mountain Man, page 168

     "Gonna have to dip them sinkers in coffee to get 'em soft enough to chew," Jason Biggs said, grinning.

6. In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.

Translations

See also

• (baseball pitches): curveball, slider, cut fastball, two-seam fastball, split-finger fastball, screwball, knuckleball

Anagrams

• Ikners, Kerins, Kiners, Kinser, Kisner, Kreins, Kriens, Rinkes, Serkin, inkers, reinks, reskin

Spanish

Noun

sinker m (plural sinkers or sinker)

1. (baseball) sinker

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)