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The person who makes your knives, because apparently that needed its own job title.
means A person who makes, sharpens, or deals in knives and other cutting tools.
from Traces back through Old French 'coutelier' to Latin 'cultellus,' meaning little knife — itself a diminutive of 'culter,' a knife or plowshare. So a cutler is, at root, simply 'the knife guy,' and the word has been sharpening its way through English since the medieval trade guilds needed a name for the people who kept everyone's blades honest.
- origin
- from latin cultellus, meaning small knife
- surname clue
- if you're named Cutler, ancestor sharpened blades
- guild era
- cutlers had their own medieval trade guild
- sheffield link
- the city built its fame on cutlery making