colter

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see also: Colter

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈkəʊltə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈkoʊltəɹ/

Noun

colter (plural colters)

1. 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 […].

2. The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

Translations

• French: coutre
• German: Sech
• Italian: coltello, coltro
• Spanish: cuchillo

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Colter

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Proper noun

1. Surname

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