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Cutter
One who cuts as a stone cutter a die cutter esp one who cuts out garments...
Cutter of the tallies
Cutter of the tallies, an officer in the Exchequer to whom it belonged to provide wood for the tallies, and to cut the sum paid upon them, etc. see TALLY....
Sloop
A vessel having one mast and fore and aft rig consisting of a boom and gaff mainsail jibs staysail and gaff topsail The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit topmast and standing rigging while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted The sloop usually carries a centerboard and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880 One radical distinction is that a sloop may carry a centerboard See Cutter and Illustration in Appendix...
Blanchard lathe
A kind of wood turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms as felloes gun stocks lasts spokes etc after a given pattern The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern...
Colter
A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward in advance of the plowshare and moldboard...
Dromond
In the Middle Ages a large fast sailing galley or cutter a large swift war vessel...
Hay cutter
A machine in which hay is chopped short as fodder for cattle...
leaf cutter
Any one of various species of wild bees of the genus Megachile which cut rounded pieces from the edges of leaves or the petals of flowers to be used in the construction of their nests which are made in holes and crevices or in a leaf rolled up for the purpose Among the common American species are Megachile brevis and Megachile centuncularis Called also rose cutting bee...
Megachile
A leaf cutting bee of the genus Megachilus See Leaf cutter under Leaf...
Quantum meruit
Quantum meruit (so much as he has earned), an action on the case, express or implied, grounded on a promise to pay the plaintiff for doing a thing as much as he has earned or merited. The term is still in use to meet the cases where a plaintiff failing to prove a special contract to pay him a particular amount recovers what may be considered to be the value of his work, in which case he is said to recover on a quantum meruit [see Craven Ellis v. Canons Ltd., (1936) 2 KB 403]. As to when a plaintiff should base his claim on a special contract and when on a quantum meruit, see also Cutter v. Powell, 6 TR 320; 3 RR 185; and notes in Smith's Leading Cases thereunder. See also Cutler v. Powell, 6 TR 320 3 RR 185A claim on a quantum meruit may be specially indorsed under R.S.C. Ord. III., r. 6; Lagos v. Gunwaldt, (1910)1 KB 41.Means as much as he has deserved. The reasonable value of services; damages awarded in an amount considered reasonable to compensate a person who had rendered services...
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