colter
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See also: Colter
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See coulter.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
colter (plural colters)
- (US) A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- I lately left a furrow, one or twayne, / Unplough'd, the which my coulter hath not cleft […].
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
- What is it but a servitude like that impos'd by the Philistims, not to be allow'd the sharpning of our own axes and coulters, but we must repair from all quarters to twenty licencing forges.
- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 150:
- With colters bright the rushy sward bisect, / And in new veins the gushing rills direct […] .
- (US) The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
Translations[edit]
coulter — see coulter
References[edit]
- Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 82
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
colter
- Alternative form of culter