local. [prob. plural of CUT sb. in some application, the plural referring to the two pairs of wheels, ‘a pair of cuts.’] (See quots.)
1847–78. Halliwell, Cuts, a timber-carriage. Linc.
1877. N. W. Linc. Gloss., Cuts … for conveying timber. It consists of two pairs of wheels with a long pole as a coupling between them, so as to place them far apart.
1886. S. W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., He was fined for using a pair of cutts on the highway without having his name painted thereon.
