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coulter¹

  • /ˈkəʊltə/ UK

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English culter, from Old English culter, from Latin culter (“a knife”). For the phonetic development, see poultry.

noun coulters · colter · culter

  1. 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. Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
  2. UK The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

Coulter²

  • /ˈkoʊltər/

proper noun Coulters

  1. countable, uncountable A surname. “Trump proposes amnesty. We voted for Trump and got Jeb!” said Ann Coulter on Twitter, referring to former Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
  2. countable, uncountable A small village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT0233).

    Similar: Culter

  3. countable, uncountable A minor city in Franklin County, Iowa, United States.
  4. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: colter, skim, coulston, coulon, coulson, coulthard, coulombe, coulton, coulls, cottle, coffel, cotterell, cotter, corlett, cockell, coules

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noun cutter attached to the beam of a plow

Españolcuchillo
Portuguêsteiró
Françaiscoutre
DeutschSech, Kolter, Pflugmesser
Italianocoltello, coltro
Русскийпредплу́жник predplúžnik

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@misc{coulter_2026,
  title = {coulter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/coulter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}