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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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Example Sentences

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Northern Ireland's links to World Cup songs stretch back to 1970, when Phil Coulter was a co-writer of England's Back Home.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

Upon closing, Masimo is expected to operate as a standalone company within Danaher’s Diagnostics segment, alongside its other businesses Radiometer, Leica Biosystems, Cepheid and Beckman Coulter Diagnostics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

At more than 4,000 feet, up in the Cuyamaca Mountains, it rests among coastal live oak woodlands and Coulter pine forests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 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

“What is this prophecy?” demanded Mrs. Coulter, who had been getting increasingly angry.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

Thou saw the fields laid bare an' waste, And weary winter comin' fast, And cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell, Till crash! the cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell.

From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave

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

In these days the word coulter and the Sanscrit kartari are simply signs or phonetic notations, insignificant in themselves, and everything else has disappeared.

From Myth and Science An Essay by Tito Vignoli

Thou saw the fields laid bare and waste, And weary winter comin' fast, And cozie here, beneath the blast Thou thought to dwell, Till, crash! the cruel coulter past Out through thy cell.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner

Then dips the coulter and drives the share, And the furrows faintly steam.

From The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education

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