colter

See also: Colter

English

Alternative forms

• coulter (mostly Commonwealth)
• culter

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English culter, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin culter (“a knife”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊltə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊltəɹ/

Noun

colter (plural colters)

1. 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, The Faerie Queene, VI.9:

     I lately left a furrow, one or twayne, / Unplough'd, the which my coulter hath not cleft […].

   • 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.

2. The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

Translations

cutter attached to the beam of a plow

• French: coutre (fr) m
• Galician: tieira f, teiroa f
• German: Sech (de) m
• Italian: coltello (it) m, coltro (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: cuchillo (es) m
• Walloon: coûte (wa) m

part of a seed drill

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

References

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 82

Anagrams

• lector