colter
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- coulter (mostly Commonwealth)
Etymology [edit]
From Old English culter, from Latin culter (“a knife”)
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
colter (plural colters)
- A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- 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.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
Anagrams [edit]
References [edit]
- Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 82
