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Meaning of Coulter | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈkəʊltə

Definitions

  1. A surname.
  2. A cutter, consisting of a blade in either knife form or disk form, attached to the ploughbeam of a plough to cut the sward, in front of the ploughshare and mouldboard.
  3. A small village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT0233).
  4. The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
  5. A minor city in Franklin County, Iowa, United States.
  6. An unincorporated community in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Equivalents

العربية حديدة المحراث
Català ganivet
Čeština nůž
Cymraeg cwlltwr
Español cuchillo
Suomi veitsi
Français Coulter coutre
Galego teiroa tieira
Italiano coltello coltro
Nederlands kouter
Polski krój radlica
Português teiró
Русский предплу́жник

Examples

“Holonyms: plough, plow < implement”
“I lately left a furrow, one or twayne, / Unplough'd, the which my coulter hath not cleft […].”
“What is it but a servitude like that impos'd by the Philistims, not to be allow'd the sharpning of our own axes and coulters, but we must repair from all quarters to twenty licencing forges.”
“With colters bright the rushy sward bisect, / And in new veins the gushing rills direct […].”
““Trump proposes amnesty. We voted for Trump and got Jeb!” said Ann Coulter on Twitter, referring to former Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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