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coul⋅ter

  [kohl-ter]
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–noun
colter.

Coul⋅ter

  [kohl-ter]
–noun
John Merle  [murl] , 1851–1928, U.S. botanist.

col⋅ter

  [kohl-ter]
–noun
a sharp blade or wheel attached to the beam of a plow, used to cut the ground in advance of the plowshare.
Also, coulter.

Origin:
1300–50; ME, OE culter < L: knife, plowshare
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coul·ter   (kōl'tər)   
n.  A blade or wheel attached to the beam of a plow that makes vertical cuts in the soil in advance of the plowshare.

[Middle English culter, from Old English culter and Old French coltre, both from Latin culter, knife, plowshare; see skel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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Coulter

(1 Sam. 13:20, 21), an agricultural instrument, elsewhere called "ploughshare" (Isa. 2:4; Micah 4:3; Joel 3:10). It was the facing-piece of a plough, analogous to the modern coulter.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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