Category:Coulter

Coul"ter (kol"ter), n.

Defn: Same as Colter.

Col"ter, n. Etym: [AS. culter, fr. L. culter plowshare, knife. Cf. Cutlass.]

Defn: A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard. [Written also colter.]

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary.

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