cutout (kutout)

goods. A skilful cutter of diamonds and polisher of gems. Boyle, Works, V. 36. Specifically-(a) Formerly, an officer in the English exchequer whose office it was to provide wood for the tallies, and to cut on them the sums paid. See tally. (b) In tailor ing, one who measures and cuts out cloth for garments, or cuts it according to measurements made by another. (ct) A bully; a bravo; a swaggering fellow; a sharper; a rob ber. Also cuttle. He's out of cash, and thou know'st by cutter's law we are bound to relieve one another. Rowley, Match at Midnight He with a crew went forth Of lusty cutters stout and bold, And robbed in the North. True Tale of Robin Hood (Child's Ballads, V. 356), Because thou art a misproud bird, and despisest thine own natural lineage, and rufflest unpaid and vel vets, and keepest company with gallants and cutters, must we lose our memory for that? Scott, Monastery, xxxvii. 2. That which cuts; an instrument or tool, or a part of one, that cuts: as, a straw- cutter; the cutters of a boring-machine. Stewpans and saucepans, cutters and moulds, without different distances from the center by means of a groove and screw. It can also be used on the mandrel of a lathe for ornamenting surfaces. (b) A cutting-tool for a lathe having an independent motion of its own on the slide-rest. It produces eccentric figures, but by a method that is the reverse of that of the eccentric chuck (which see, under chuck 4). - Hanging cutter, in some plows, a colter which depends from the plow-beam. - Mill-board cutter. See mill- board. - Revenue cutter, a light-armed government ve el commi ioned for the prevention of smuggling and the enforcement of the customs regulations. Formerly the ve els for the protection of the United States revenue were cutter-rigged, but now the name is applied indiscriminately, although almost all the revenue ve els are steamers, and the few remaining sailing ve els are schooner-rigged.-Rigging-cutter, an apparatus for cutting the rigging of sunken ve els, to remove the masts, etc., lest they should interfere with navigation.