Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
knife orcutter attached to the beam of aplow to cut thesward , in advance of theplowshare andmoldboard . - noun The part of a seed
drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have no doubt that the revolting miasma of slimebags like limbaugh ,hannity,colter,oreilly and other assorted right wing hate mongers will both love this and justify this.
Video of Police Beating Released in Washington State - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Publisher: Popular Library the gull cove murders (detective pat campbell) by colter eli
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Buchanan: Todd Palin should drown Levi Johnston. 2009
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Write to Allison Bisbey Colter at allison. bisbey-colter@dowjones.com
Going -- Slowly 2008
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Nao kitteh, u noe wut lisning 2 jessi colter duz 2 u.
Der r no werds to ‘spress - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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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
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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
Ivan the Fool 2003
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Q In your discussions with Mr.. Clinton, or a discussion in which you learned that her trade, in fact, were sometimes placed by Mr. Blair, what else have you learned in the last week on a colter of how she made her decisions, and who else she got advice from; how she contacted him on a daily basis in order to instruct him to make trades for her?
Backgrounder On Clintons Taxes ITY National Archives 1994
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The colter needed sharpening and there was a crack in the whippletree.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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The colter needed sharpening and there was a crack in the whippletree.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988
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At glaciation's midwinter, a colter of ice opened a gap in the Kazan ringwall.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974
bilby commented on the word colter
So much for 'swords into ploughshares', they're pretty much the same thing.
July 20, 2022
ruzuzu commented on the word colter
Hm. Ploughshares cut into swards.
July 20, 2022