coulter

noun /ˈkəʊltə/

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. The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry coulter (CC BY-SA 4.0).

← couloircounterpane →

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