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
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Along with Bill Martin, Coulter also wrote Scotland's 1974 effort Easy, Easy in the era of the Bay City Rollers.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 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
Even in her sickened distress, Lena Feldt could see that Mrs. Coulter had more force in her soul than anyone she had ever seen.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
Thou saw the fields laid bare an’ waste, An’ weary winter comin’ fast, An’ cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell, ’Till, crash! the cruel coulter past Out thro’ thy cell.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
The coulter is six inches in width, and is fastened to the beam at one end, and at the other to the point of the round bar.
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
He said: "You take that coulter off and I'll get the wheel."
From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by W. W. (William Wallace) Denslow
Cast-iron, with the exception of the coulter, for an easy soil would be equally good; and from eighteen to twenty-four inches is sufficiently deep to run the plow.
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
The coulter from the point up through the beam, regulated by wheel and screw midway.c.
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
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