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cutter (n.)
late 12c., "one who cuts" in any sense, agent noun from
cut
(v.). As a type of small, single-masted vessel, from 1762, earlier "boat belonging to a ship of war" (1745), perhaps so called from the notion of "cutting" through the water.
