coulter

Meaning

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

Synonyms

colter

chisel

mattock

ploughshare

sharp

Translations

kouter

coutre

Sech

Voreisen

υνί

υνί του άροτρου

υνί αρότρου

coltro

ploegijzer

ploegkouter

ploegmes

حديدة المحراث

coitre

Vorschneider

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkəʊltə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: culter

Inherited from Old English: culter

In summary

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