coulter

See also: Coulter

English

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coulter (agriculture) and coulter

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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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊltə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

coulter (plural coulters)

2. 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.

   Alternative forms: colter (less common, even in US), culter (obsolete)

   Holonyms: plough, plow < implement

   Comeronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, moldboard, mouldboard, jointer, chisel

   • 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 […] .

3. (British) The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

Translations

cutter attached to the beam of a plow

Breton: kontell (br) f Cornish: kolter m Czech: čertadlo n, krojidlo n, nůž (cs) m Dutch: kouter (nl) m Finnish: veitsi (fi) French: coutre (fr) m Galician: tieira f, teiroa f German: Sech (de) n, Kolter (de) n, Pflugmesser n Hungarian: csoroszlya (hu) Italian: coltello (it) m, coltro (it) m Ottoman Turkish: قلج (kılıc) Polish: krój pługa m Portuguese: teiró m Russian: предплу́жник (ru) (predplúžnik) Spanish: cuchillo (es) m Walloon: coûte (wa) m Welsh: cwlltwr m

part of a seed drill

Finnish: veitsi (fi) Polish: krój siewnika m

Further reading

• “coulter”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Anagrams

• cloture, clouter, clôture, lectour

Middle English

Noun

coulter

1. alternative form of culter