coulter en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English culter, from Old English culter, from Latin culter (“a knife”). For the phonetic development, see poultry.
Meanings
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A cutter, consisting of a blade in either knife form or disk form, attached to the ploughbeam of a plough to cut the sward, in front of the ploughshare and mouldboard.
With colters bright the rushy sward bisect, / And in new veins the gushing rills direct […].
1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 150:I lately left a furrow, one or twayne, / Unplough'd, the which my coulter hath not cleft […].
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
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, Areopagitica:
- (UK) The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| coulters | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| culter | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic | |
| colter | US, alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Relateds
colter · ploughshare · culter · plowshare · moldboard · chisel · jointer · mouldboard
Translations (28)
ru предплу́жник (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · it coltro (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · de Pflugmesser (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · cs čertadlo (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · de Kolter (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · br kontell (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · gl tieira (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · ota قلج (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · it coltello (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · hu csoroszlya (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · nl kouter (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · wa coûte (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · fi veitsi (part of a seed drill) · pl krój siewnika (part of a seed drill) · fi veitsi (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · fr coutre (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · ga coltar (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · gl teiroa (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · cy cwlltwr (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · cs nůž (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · pt teiró (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · ota صبان بیچاغی (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · de Sech (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · ca ganivet (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · cs krojidlo (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · pl krój pługa (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · kw kolter (cutter attached to the beam of a plow) · es cuchillo (cutter attached to the beam of a plow)