Noun

1. A person or device that cuts
2. 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 heavy-duty motor boat for official use.

   a coastguard cutter.

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