1An implement for cutting cheese, especially by means of a wire which can be pulled through the cheese.
(尤指用金属丝拉切的)干酪刀
Example sentencesExamples
I have my Grandmothers wire cheese cutter- it must be 40- 50 years old.
This wrought iron framed cheese cutter is a super piece of Early American kitchenware and it is in really nice condition.
When Uncle Adam visited us he noticed that we didn't have a cheese cutter.
2informal A cap with a broad, squared peak.
〈非正式〉帽舌宽且方的帽子
Example sentencesExamples
We had these hats called cheese-cutters, or straw boaters.
None but the truly die-hard fans would have recognised me, slouched here with a black cheese-cutter cap pulled low over my face, sunglasses obscuring my eyes.
The man behind the lead is tall and lean with ice-blue eyes, often peering out below a cheese-cutter hat.
The shirt was snowy white, the cheese-cutter cap (worn back-to-front, naturally) similarly virginal.
Definition of cheese-cutter in US English:
cheese-cutter
nounˈCHēzˌkədər
1An implement for cutting cheese, especially by means of a wire which can be pulled through the cheese.
(尤指用金属丝拉切的)干酪刀
Example sentencesExamples
This wrought iron framed cheese cutter is a super piece of Early American kitchenware and it is in really nice condition.
I have my Grandmothers wire cheese cutter- it must be 40- 50 years old.
When Uncle Adam visited us he noticed that we didn't have a cheese cutter.
2informal A cap with a broad, square brim.
Example sentencesExamples
The shirt was snowy white, the cheese-cutter cap (worn back-to-front, naturally) similarly virginal.
None but the truly die-hard fans would have recognised me, slouched here with a black cheese-cutter cap pulled low over my face, sunglasses obscuring my eyes.
The man behind the lead is tall and lean with ice-blue eyes, often peering out below a cheese-cutter hat.
We had these hats called cheese-cutters, or straw boaters.