Associations to the word «Colter»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

COLTER, noun. A sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope