cutter (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict[cutter 词源字典]
late 12c., "one who cuts" in any sense, agent noun from cut (v.). As a type of small, single-masted vessel, from 1762, earlier "boat belonging to a ship of war" (1745), perhaps so called from the notion of "cutting" through the water.[cutter etymology, cutter origin, 英语词源]