Crossword clues for colter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colter \Col"ter\, n. [AS. culter, fr. L. culter plowshare, knife. Cf. Cutlass.] A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard. [Written also coulter.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard. 2 The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
WordNet
n. a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil [syn: coulter]
Wikipedia
Colter is the name of a place, a family name, a company name and the title of a book.
Usage examples of "colter".
The route to Colter Canyon was not unfamiliar to any but the greenest of the recruits.
Colter did not recite his tales with the braggadocio of the seasoned yarner but with a conviction Hugh found vaguely unsettling.
Margaret Cooper in more need of your advice, than Jane Colter, or Betsy Barnes, or Susan Mason, or Rebecca Forbes, or even the widow Thackeray.
He had the numbers and addresses of two Carolines: Caroline Rogers in Queens and Caroline Colter at Craters of the Moon National Monument.
Calvert, I think it's mighty strange that you should think Margaret Cooper in more need of your advice, than Jane Colter, or Betsy Barnes, or Susan Mason, or Rebecca Forbes, or even the widow Thackeray.
Look at Jane Colter, and Betsy Barnes, and Rebecca Forbes, and Susan Mason.
He'd tried not to act surprised because he didn't want her to think the Colters were anything less than unified.
She wondered what the Colters and the Kingsleys would say if they knew Cletus Brown's daughter was among them tonight.
Brant insisted, automatically coming to the defense of a man who'd never shown him the slightest bit of loyalty, other than to remind him from time to time that Brant was a Colter, and Colters always stuck together.
I'm here because I was reminded that we Colters always stick together.
Blue said to Nicole through Ellie, "as the colters reach your internal organs.
Colter stretched his long neck like a vulture and peered down the slope and through the aisles of the forest up toward the canyon rim.
The next morning early, as the party were yet encamped at the mouth of a small stream, they were visited by another of these heroes of the wilderness, one John Colter, who had accompanied Lewis and Clarke in their memorable expedition.