† cutwithcutwithyn.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
The crossbar or similar fastening at the end of the beam of a plough or harrow to which the gear of the draught animals is attached.
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plough shackle?c1475
plough-ear1510
cock?1523
ear?1523
muzzle1534
cutwith1565
tractory1607
plough-cock1652
plough-head1733
hake1787
bridle1790
drail1811
gallows1840
plough clevis1846
1565 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 179 ij coulters, ij paire cutwydyes, j. horse draughte.
1624 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1885) III. An Acklam labourer presented for stealing two yron cutwithies.
1823 W. Tennant Cardinal Beaton 114 (Jam.) Couters, and barrow-trams, an' cudwuddies.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Cutwiddies, the links which join the swingletrees to the threiptree in a plough.
1863 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) I. Cutwith (Heref.), the bar of the plough to which the traces are attached.
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