Colter
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈkəʊltə/
- US IPA: /ˈkoʊltəɹ/
Alternative forms
- coulter (mostly Commonwealth)
Origin
From Old English culter, from Latin culter ("a knife")
Full definition of colter
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.
- The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.