Cutler
[kʌtlә]
Definition
(n.) One who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other cutting instruments.
Editor: Ricky
Definition
n. one who makes or sells knives.—n. Cut′lery the business of a cutler: edged or cutting instruments in general.
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Examples
- She's devilish like Miss Cutler that I used to meet at Dumdum, only fairer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In Sheffield, no master cutler can have more than one apprentice at a time, by a bye-law of the corporation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- His right and left divisions--the former Crawford's, the latter Wadsworth's, now commanded by Cutler--drove the enemy back some distance. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Warren's corps was now temporarily broken up, Cutler's division sent to Wright, and Griffin's to Hancock. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His father took him to visit the shops of j oiners, bricklayers, turners, braziers, cutlers, and other artisans, thus st imulating in him a delight in handicraft. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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