Coulter
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkəʊltə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Coulter is a noun meaning (British) The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
Meaning
(British) The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
More Meanings
- A cutter, consisting of a blade in either knife form or disk form, attached to the ploughbeam of a plough to cut the sward, in front of the ploughshare and mouldboard.
Example Sentences
Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
With colters bright the rushy sward bisect, / And in new veins the gushing rills direct […].
I lately left a furrow, one or twayne, / Unplough'd, the which my coulter hath not cleft […].
What is it but a servitude like that impos'd by the Philistims, not to be allow'd the sharpning of our own axes and coulters, but we must repair from all quarters to twenty licencing forges.
Word Forms
- coulters
Synonyms for coulter
Depending on context, synonyms include colter.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include colter, skim, cotter, boulter.
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