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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1†n.

a low, light one-horse sleigh having an upholstered seat.

See: sleigh-cutter

Quotations

1826

A sleigh is drawn by two horses abreast, here called a "span"; a cutter is drawn by one horse.

1849

Twice a week we had sleigh meets, when curricles, and tandem, and cutters, or sleighs of one horse power, turned out with steeds gaily decked with party-coloured streamers, and alive with bells.

1948

. . . Jake [was] fast asleep in the arms of Bacchus, with his horse and cutter, stranded in a fence corner by the side of the road.

1966

The six, square-timbered barns . . . [contain] a museum of pioneer equipment -- cutters, wagons, broad axes . . .

2n. — Esp. West

a low two-horse sleigh having narrow runners and, usually, a front and back seat.

Quotations

1920

. . . as he spoke the "off" horse suddenly slipped and fell, and, plunging to its feet again, a leg slid over the cutter's tongue.

1934

. . . with a team and cutter, fur robes, hot stones at her feet . . . their continued journey had been warm and comfortable by comparison.

1960

. . . my trip of twenty-two miles was made by team and cutter.