8. A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut.
Cutter bar. (Mach.) (a) A bar which carries a cutter or cutting tool, as in a boring machine. (b) The bar to which the triangular knives of a harvester are attached. -- Cutter head (Mach.), a rotating head, which itself forms a cutter, or a rotating stock to which cutters may be attached, as in a planing or matching machine. Knight.
Cut"throat` (k?t"thr?t`), n. One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
Cut"throat`, a. Murderous; cruel; barbarous.
Cut"ting (kŭt"t&ibreve;ng), n. 1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.
2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.
Cut"ting, a. 1. Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.