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colter

US/ˈkoʊltɚ/

colter is the US standard spelling of coulter.

Meaning of coulter

Noun

coulter (plural coulters)

  1. 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.
    • Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
  2. (UK) The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

See all 6 meanings of coulter

Proper noun capitalized: Colter

Colter (plural Colters)

  1. A surname.

Forms of colter

Noun
pluralcolters
Proper noun
pluralColters

Origin of colter

See coulter.

Words formed from colter

Questions about colter

What does colter mean?
Colter means a surname.
What is colter the US standard spelling of?
Colter is the US standard spelling of coulter.
What part of speech is colter?
Colter is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce colter?
Colter is pronounced /ˈkoʊltɚ/ (US).

Words near colter in the dictionary

  1. coltan
  2. coltans
  3. Coltauco
  4. colted
  5. Colten
  6. colter
  7. colterol
  8. colters
  9. Coltfield
  10. Coltharp
  11. Coltharps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colter (page history and authors); Colter (page history and authors); coulter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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