colter

American  

[kohl-ter] / ˈkoʊl tər /

Or coulter

noun

1. a sharp blade or wheel attached to the beam of a plow, used to cut the ground in advance of the plowshare.

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colter British  

/ ˈkəʊltə /

noun

1. a variant spelling (esp US) of coulter

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Etymology

Origin of colter

1300–50; Middle English, Old English culter < Latin: knife, plowshare

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Example Sentences

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colter

But there be tough old roots in some soils, roots stout enough to snap the colter of the commercializing plow,—as, for example, in Paradise Valley, owned, in broken areas, principally by an unreconciled Major Dabney.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

This sod-turning plow has its landside, moldboard, and colter in separate pieces.

From Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 by John T. Schlebecker

Why, the weacked old critter, she kept a backing and backing, on till she back'd me right up agin the colter, and knock'd a piece of skin off my shin nearly so big.

From The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems by Various

The plow has a lock colter and wrought-iron share fitted on the end of a wooden beam.

From Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 by John T. Schlebecker

Clang! clang!—we forge the colter now— The colter of the kindly plow; Benignant Father, bless our toil; May its broad furrow still unbind To genial rains, to sun and wind, The most productive soil!

From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Charles W. Sanders

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