A light sleigh.
1811. The horse and cutter advertised in your paper has been found . The post bags which were in the cutter, &c.Mass. Spy, May 1.
1836. The usual equipages of the double sleigh and cutter.Backwoods of Canada, p. 207. (N.E.D.)
1857. How I longed for a dashing American cutter, with a span of fast horses!Bayard Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 155. (N.E.D.)