cutter vs sword

cutter

noun
  • A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon. 

  • A light sleigh drawn by one horse. 

  • A flag or similar instrument for blocking light. 

  • A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore. 

  • A foretooth; an incisor. 

  • A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut. 

  • A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh. 

  • An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling. 

  • A person or device that cuts (in various senses). 

  • A heavy-duty motor boat for official use. 

  • 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. 

  • A surgeon. 

  • A knife. 

  • A cut fastball. 

sword

noun
  • The weapon, often used as a heraldic charge. 

  • A suit in the minor arcana in tarot. 

  • A card of this suit. 

  • A long-bladed weapon device with a grip- a hilt (a pommel and cross guard), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack. 

  • One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended. 

verb
  • To stab or cut with a sword 

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