Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 5 cutwythy, 6 -wydy, 7 -withy, 9 -widdie, -wuddie. [f. CUT ppl. a. + WITH, WITHY twig.] The cross-bar or similar fastening at the end of the beam of a plow or harrow to which the gear of the draught animals is attached.
1565. Richmond. Wills (Surtees), 179. ij coulters, ij paire cutwydyes, j. horse draughte.
1624. N. Riding Rec. (1885), III. II. 201. An Acklam labourer presented for stealing two yron cutwithies.
1823. Tennant, Card. Beaton, 114 (Jam.). Couters, and barrow-trams, an’ cudwuddies.
1825. Jamieson, Cutwiddies, the links which join the swingletrees to the threiptree in a plough. Clydes.
1863. Morton, Cycl. Agric., Gloss., Cutwith (Heref.), the bar of the plough to which the traces are attached.
