colter
See also: Colter
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English culter, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin culter (“a knife”)
Pronunciation
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Noun
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.
- 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.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.9:
- The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
Translations
cutter attached to the beam of a plow
part of a seed drill
References
- Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 82