coulter
See also: Coulter
English
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editInherited from Middle English culter, from Old English culter, from Latin culter (“a knife”). For the phonetic development, see poultry.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊltə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editcoulter (plural coulters)
- (British) A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plough to cut the sward, in front of the share and mouldboard.
- 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 […] .
- (British) The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
Translations
editcutter attached to the beam of a plow
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editcoulter
- Alternative form of culter
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