The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CUTTER
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What does CUTTER mean?
CUTTER noun- A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- 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 foretooth; an incisor.
- A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.
- A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
- A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- A cut fastball.
- A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
- A person who practices self-injury.
- A surgeon.
- An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
- An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
- A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
- A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
- A light sleigh drawn by one horse.