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cowter

cowter is the alternative form of couter.

Meaning of couter

Noun (1)

couter (plural couters)

  1. (historical) A piece of armor which covers the elbow.
    • Helmets should be started in 10 or 12 gauge, couters and knees in 14 gauge.2000, Brian Price, Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction: The 14th Century, →ISBN

Noun (2)

couter (plural couters)

  1. (obsolete, slang) A sovereign (the coin).

Forms of cowter

pluralcowters

Questions about cowter

What is cowter the alternative form of?
Cowter is the alternative form of couter.

Words near cowter in the dictionary

  1. cowtail
  2. cowtails
  3. cowtastrophe
  4. cowtastrophes
  5. cowtaur
  6. cowter
  7. cowters
  8. Cowthorpe
  9. Cowton
  10. cowtow
  11. cowtown

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cowter (page history and authors); couter (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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