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Colter   /kˈoʊltər/   Listen
Colter

noun
(Written also coulter)
1.
A sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil.  Synonym: coulter.






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"Colter" Quotes from Famous Books



... still continued to labor. I broke one plow, but he replaced it with another, fixing it securely, and resumed work. Going beneath the surface of the ground I took hold of the plowshares, but did not succeed in stopping Ivan. He pressed so hard, and the colter was so sharp, that my hands were cut; and despite my utmost efforts, he went over all but a ...
— The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories • Leo Tolstoy

... men were served in it. They had not paused for a midday meal; the cook had provided sandwiches of bread and roast beef to dull the edge of their appetite, and now all were keen to fall to as soon as the welcome clanging of the plow-colter which hung from the end of the chuck wagon ...
— Dennison Grant - A Novel of To-day • Robert Stead



Words linked to "Colter" :   wedge, mouldboard plough, moldboard plow



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