cutter

1. noun, N. Amer., a light horse-drawn sleigh (COD); 2. attributive; see also horse and cutter

1.
“They could hear him coming, miles away, singing through the fields with the cutter and the horse and the rest of it.”

“Well a cutter is like a buggy without wheels, it’s like runners. For snow.”

“Did you call it a sleigh?”
“Sleigh and a cutter and… She’s small, kind of a buggy with runners on it, sleigh runners on it.”

“So you just had one horse to a cutter then?”

“Yeah, 65th wedding anniversary and still able to get in a cutter.”

“Well, we just had the cutter, like when we went to the dance. But during the day, I had the team and sleigh to break out the track, ’cause when the car’d get stuck I’d just hook onto it with the team.”

“They lived across the bay and their ice was good. So he come over in the car, and I took the team and sleigh, and we broke a track down to the highway and then left the car down there. And that’s how we come to drive with the cutter that night.”

“There was an old chap running up the street all drunk hanging out the cutter.”

2.
“We had an old couple that had booked a cutter ride on this Sunday, two years ago.”