Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who makes, repairs, or sells knives or other cutting instruments.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One whose occupation is the making of knives and other cutting instruments.
  • noun . One who sharpens or repairs cutlery; a knife-grinder.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other cutting instruments.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One whose business is making or dealing in cutlery.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a dealer in cutlery

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English cuteler, from Old French coutelier, from coutel, knife; see cutlass.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French coutelier ("knife-maker").

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