Cutter

a ruffian, a cut-purse. Of Robin Hood it was said— “So being outlaw’d (as ’tis told), He with a crew went forth Of lusty CUTTERS , bold and strong, And robbed in the north.” Cutter , a swashbuckler— balaffreux taille bras, fendeur de naseaux. — Cotgrave. “He’s out of cash, and thou know’st by CUTTER’S LAW , We are bound to relieve one another.” Match at Midn. , O. Pl., vii. 553. This ancient cant word now survives in the phrase, “to swear like a CUTTER .”