Coulter
noun
John Merle 1851–1928, U.S. botanist.
Coulter
American
[kohl-ter]
/ ˈkoʊl tər /
noun
coulter
British
/ ˈkəʊltə /
noun
Etymology
Origin of coulter
Old English culter, from Latin: ploughshare, knife
Example Sentences
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Taylor Coulter was returning from the toilets in Magaluf's famous Bananas nightclub when a stranger bumped into her on the stairs.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 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
Mrs. Coulter wanted to say more, to ask the dozen questions that rose to her lips, but the king had moved on, unwilling to keep his commander waiting, and she had to follow.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Sometimes the coulter of a plough will be heated red-hot, and the witch will rush in, crying out that she is burning.
From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
There he shod a mule, mended a cart or put a new coulter to a plow, with equal facility.
From Their Son; The Necklace by Eduardo Zamacois
Immediately he took a coulter and heated it red hot, and thrust it into the straw at the end of his forge, and set it on fire and burnt it up.
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
Thou saw the fields laid bare and waste, And weary winter coming fast, And cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell, Till crash! the cruel coulter passed Out through thy cell.
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White
"No," I said, "you take the coulter off; I am younger than you and will go after the wheel."
From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by W. W. (William Wallace) Denslow
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