Nov. 30th, 2010

coulter

Nov. 30th, 2010 07:16 am
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coulter or colter (KOHL-ter) - n., a blade or sharp disc attached to the beam of a plow, used to cut the ground ahead of the plowshare.


An advance in agricultural technology that increased farm production in the middle ages. From Middle English colter or culter, from Old English culter and Old French coltre, both from Latin culter, plowshare, knife.

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