[f. CURTAIL v. + -ER.] One who curtails, shortens, abridges.
1734. Waterland, Athan. Creed, x. 141. That the Latins had not been interpolators of the creed, but that the Greeks had been curtailers.
1813. Shelley, Q. Mab, Note viii. Disease and war, those sweeping curtailers of population.