Etymology

coulter

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Middle English culter ← Old English culter ← Latin culter
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  1. Latin · derived fromculter“a knife”
  2. Old English · inherited fromculter
  3. Middle English · inherited fromculter
  4. English todaycoulter

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

Words from the same roots

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