name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
coulter
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈkoʊltər/
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UK: /ˈkəʊltə/
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name
Meaning 2
A small village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT0233).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Culter
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A minor city in Franklin County, Iowa, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 4
An unincorporated community in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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noun
Meaning 7
a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: colter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wedge
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English culter, from Old English culter, from Latin culter (“a knife”). For the phonetic development, see poultry.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Breton: kontell — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Catalan: ganivet — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Cornish: kolter — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Czech: čertadlo — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Czech: krojidlo — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Czech: nůž — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Dutch: kouter — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Finnish: veitsi — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- French: coutre — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Galician: tieira — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Galician: teiroa — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- German: Sech — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- German: Kolter — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- German: Pflugmesser — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Hungarian: csoroszlya — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Irish: coltar — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Italian: coltello — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Italian: coltro — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Polish: krój pługa — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Portuguese: teiró — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Russian: предплу́жник (predplúžnik) — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Spanish: cuchillo — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Ottoman Turkish: قلج (kılıc) — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Ottoman Turkish: صبان بیچاغی (saban bıçağı) — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Walloon: coûte — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Welsh: cwlltwr — cutter attached to the beam of a plow
- Finnish: veitsi — part of a seed drill
- Polish: krój siewnika — part of a seed drill