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A sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil
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coulter
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English culter , from Latin culter "a knife, iron blade in a plowshare," from PIE root *(s)kel- "to cut" (see scale (n.1)). As a surname (13c.), probably from Coulter in Lancashire.
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n. (context British English) (alternative spelling of colter English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 .]
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WordNet
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n. a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil [syn: colter ]
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Population (2000): 262 Housing Units (2000): 118 Land area (2000): 2.453894 sq. miles (6.355556 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.453894 sq. miles (6.355556 sq. km) FIPS code: 16815 Located within: Iowa ...
Usage examples of coulter.
Coulter is not a priest, of course, but she is a powerful agent of the Magisterium, and it was she who set up the Oblation Board and persuaded the Church to pay for Bolvangar, because of her interest in Dust.
He had not been surprised, therefore, to learn that young Larrabie and his friend, Ranny Coulter, were consulting the agency.
Agent saw the door of the Coulter house open, saw Ranny Coulter and Jack Larrabie come out and start to descend the steps to the sidewalk.
Everybody was gathered around the still smouldering body of Ranny Coulter, commiserating with his hysterical parents who had rushed out of the house.
The murders in Belvidere Road, the horrible killing of Ranny Coulter, and the abduction of young Larrabie were the subjects of excited comment throughout the city.
The Agent saw the frantic, running specks which were men and women in panic, he saw a sheet of flame in the street, and his lips compressed grimly as he realized that this was the burning body of Ranny Coulter.
He knelt and began pulling at lumps between the coulter knife that cut the furrow and the moldboard that turned it over.
BY ANN COULTER HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS The Case Against Bill Clinton SLANDER Liberal Lies About the American Right TREASON LIBERAL TREACHERY FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE WAR ON TERRORISM ANN COULTER THE NEW BLACKLIST: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Deserving of the most hysterical liberal blacklisting for helping me with this book are: M.
The master went over about nine o'clock to see what kind of a ploughman was Jack, and what did he see but the little boy driving the bastes, and the sock and coulter of the plough skimming along the sod, and Jack pulling ding~dong again' the horses.
Fields gave way to scattered slopes of oaks, and higher still came open park-like stands of thin-foliaged Coulter pine.
Fields gave way to scattered slopes Of oaks, and higher still came open park-like stands of thinfoliaged Coulter pine.
Coulter told me what it was, elementary particles, but that's all she called it.
Arlington, VA : Why are women like Ingraham and Coulter so anti-feminist when they have reeped many benefits of the feminist movement?
Coulter the first time, right, I found the gyptians again and they looked after me and.
Coulter smiled, and her daemon bared his white teeth in a grin of implike pleasure.