colter

plural colters

1. USstandardUS standard spelling of coulter.

   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

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   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

plural Colters

1. A surname.