Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An iron blade or sharp-edged wheel attached to the beam of a plow to cut the ground and thus facilitate the separation of the furrow-slice by the plowshare. Also culter.
- n. In medieval armor, a two-handed Flemish weapon with one edge straight and the other curved: so called from its resemblance to the colter of a plow.
Wiktionary
- n. A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
- n. The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil
Etymologies
- From Old English culter, from Latin culter ("a knife") (Wiktionary)
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