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• Coulter
  Coulter

  noun

  John Merle 1851–1928, U.S. botanist.
• coulter
  coulter

  noun

  a blade or sharp-edged disc attached to a plough so that it cuts through the soil vertically in advance of the ploughshare

Coulter

American  

[kohl-ter] / ˈkoʊl tər /

noun

1. John Merle 1851–1928, U.S. botanist.

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coulter British  

/ ˈkəʊltə /

noun

1. Also (esp US): colter. a blade or sharp-edged disc attached to a plough so that it cuts through the soil vertically in advance of the ploughshare

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Etymology

Origin of coulter

Old English culter, from Latin: ploughshare, knife

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Esme Coulter, 17, who came joint third playing poohsticks with the Queen after winning a poetry competition, said: "It's been amazing, definitely not something I ever would have expected from winning a poetry competition."

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Hanwha is also exploring arrangements where the company’s excess orders could be built at other shipyards’ docks, Coulter added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

There’s Jim Coulter, executive chairman and a founding partner of TPG, who now helps lead the firm’s impact and environmental investing practices.

From Barron's ● Dec. 5, 2025

“Michael Coulter started the game and played the first two quarters, I played the second two and Michael never played again.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025

“But the witch would tell us at once,” said Mrs. Coulter.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

Half-fisherman, half-farmer, he ploughed the seas with his keel, when upon land his coulter was out of use.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby

When the surface is uneven, the uniform slope is preserved by means of a wheel and screw, which governs the plug, or coulter, raising or lowering it at pleasure.

From Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by Henry F. (Henry Flagg) French

Earth, cleft asunder, groaned in pain, As emulous they plied amain Sharp-pointed coulter, pick, and bar, Hard as the bolts of Indra are.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

I looked the plow over carefully and wondered what the "coulter" was.

From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by W. W. (William Wallace) Denslow

And cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell; Till, crash! the cruel coulter past Out through thy cell.

From One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed by C. A. Bogardus