cutwith

English

Noun

cutwith (plural cutwiths)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) The cross-bar or similar fastening at the end of the beam of a plough or harrow to which the gear of the draught animals is attached.

References

• James Orchard Halliwell (1846) “CUTWITH”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 289, column 1.