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English

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Etymology

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Seecoulter.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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colter (pluralcolters)

  1. (US) Aknife orcutter attached to thebeam of aplow to cut thesward, in advance of theplowshare andmoldboard.
    • 1596,Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC:
      I lately left a furrow, one or twayne, / Unplough'd, the which mycoulter 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 andcoulters, but we must repair from all quarters to twenty licencing forges.
    • 1791,Erasmus Darwin,The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page150:
      Withcolters bright the rushy sward bisect, / And in new veins the gushing rills direct[…].
  2. (US) The part of aseed drill that makes thefurrow for the seed.

Translations

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coulter—seecoulter

References

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

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Noun

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colter

  1. Alternative form ofculter
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