cutter; punching die
Refers to a shaped tool used to cut or punch out shapes from materials such as dough, metal, or paper. Common in baking (cookie cutter) and manufacturing (die cutting).
When making cookies, I use a star-shaped cutter.
This punching die is for stamping out metal sheets.
Standard spelling with regular okurigana.
Irregular okurigana variant; less common but still encountered.
Compound of 抜き (nuki, 'pulling out, extracting', the continuative form of 抜く) and 型 (kata, 'mold, shape, pattern'). Literally 'extracting mold'.