Coulter Definition

kōltər
noun
A blade or wheel attached to the beam of a plow that makes vertical cuts in the soil in advance of the plowshare.
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Colter.

Webster's New World

(UK) Alternative spelling of colter.

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Origin of Coulter

  • Middle English culter from Old English culter Old French coltre both from Latin culter knife, plowshare skel-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Coulter Sentence Examples

  • The working parts of the plough are the coulter, the share, and the breast or mould-board.

  • The coulter (either knife or disk) and sometimes a skim-coulter (or jointer) are attached adjustably to the beam, so as to act in the front of the share.

  • The coulter is a knife or revolving disk which is fixed so that its point clears the point of the share.

  • In operation the coulter makes a perpendicular cut separating the furrow-slice which is divided from the "sole" of the furrow Crested Furrow.

  • As Coulter and Chamberlain express it, " the habitats of the Gymnosperms to-day indicate that they either are not at home in the more genial conditions affected by Angiosperms, or have not been able to maintain themselves in competition with this group of plants."

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