coulter

plural coulters · alternative US colter · alternative obsolete culter

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.

   Holonyms: plough, plow < implement

   3 more examples

   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

   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

   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

2. UKThe part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

plural Coulters · alternative Pennsylvania Coulters

1. countableuncountableA surname.

   “Trump proposes amnesty. We voted for Trump and got Jeb!” said Ann Coulter on Twitter, referring to former Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush.

   2019 January 19, Stephen Collinson and Maegan Vazquez, “Trump’s offer of temporary protection for immigrants to end shutdown is a ‘non-starter,’ say Democrats”, in CNN

2. countableuncountableA small village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT0233).

   Synonyms: Culter

3. countableuncountableA minor city in Franklin County, Iowa, United States.
4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.