Meaning

2 senses
  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

    Sech, Kolter, Pflugmesser

    предплу́жникpredplúžnik

  2. (UK)The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

More definitions
  • a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
cutter attached to the beam of a plow:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
cutter attached to the beam of a plow:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English culter, from Old English culter, from Latin culter (“a knife

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

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Forms

plural: coulters

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil:colter

Word family

6 related words

See also

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