Noun: coulter
| Singular | coulter |
| Plural | coulters |
Sample Sentences
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Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
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I lately left a furrow, one or twayne, / Unplough'd, the which my coulter hath not cleft […]. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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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. [1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:]
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With colters bright the rushy sward bisect, / And in new veins the gushing rills direct […]. [1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 150:]
Nouns inflected like coulter
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English culter, from Old English culter, from Latin culter (“a knife”). For the phonetic development, see poultry. See: Middle English Nouns '
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