- a person who makes or sells cutlery
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cut•ler
(kut′lər),USA pronunciation n.
- a person who makes, sells, or repairs knives and other cutting instruments.
- Late Latin cultellārius, equivalent. to Latin cultell(us) knife (see cultellus) + -ārius -ary; see -er2
- Anglo-French, cognate with Middle French coutelier
- Middle English cuteler 1350–1400
- Biographical Manasseh, 1742–1823, U.S. Congregational clergyman and scientist: promoted settlement of Ohio;
congressman 1801–05.
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cutler /ˈkʌtlə/ n
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