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plural colters
A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard. quotations 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
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
The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed. examples