cutwith
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
cutwith (plural cutwiths)
- (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[edit]
- 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.