Definition of "revenue cutter" []

• An armed government vessel employed to enforce revenue laws, prevent smuggling, etc. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "On this promontory the Carters had the temerity to mount a battery of guns, used at least once to fire on a revenue cutter which returned fire, though without loss on either side."
• "Cingue, the leader, was separated from the rest, and was brought in by the revenue cutter Wolcott, Capt."