colter

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English

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English culter, from Old English culter, from Latin culter (“a knife”). For the phonetic development, see poultry.

Pronunciation

Noun

colter (plural colters)

  1. (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 […] .
  2. (US) The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

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References

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

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

colter

  1. Alternative form of culter
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