[f. WIND sb.1 + CUTTER sb.1] One who or that which cuts the wind, in various senses. † a. (See quot. 1611.) b. slang. A broad-brimmed hat. c. The lip of an organ-pipe, against which the wind strikes so as to make it sound (Knight, Dict. Mech., 1875).
1611. Cotgr., Taille-vent, a wind-cutter; an idle, or fond swaggerer.
1823. Surtees, in Mem. (Surtees Soc.), 250. The ghost of a prebendary would be nothing without a wind-cutter and rose.
1886. Dowden, Shelley, I. i. 21. His face … surmounted by the venerable ‘wind-cutter,’ or cocked-hat.
