One who curtails or shortens something; an agent noun from the verb curtal or curt, though rarely used.
From curtal/curt plus the agent suffix -er. Though grammatically well-formed, this word appears rarely in historical texts, suggesting it was never common in actual usage.
Even though we can logically create words like 'curter' using English word-building rules, not all possible words actually get used—this one stayed in the theoretical realm instead of becoming part of the everyday vocabulary!
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