coulter

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈkəʊltə/ (UK)
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/ˈkəʊltə/ (UK) · /ˈkoʊltər/

Definition of coulter

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  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”
    “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.”
    “With colters bright the rushy sward bisect, / And in new veins the gushing rills direct […].”
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noun

  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”
    “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.”
    “With colters bright the rushy sward bisect, / And in new veins the gushing rills direct […].”
  2. (British)The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

name

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

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Etymology

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

Anagrams of coulter

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