What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Colter vs Coater - What's the difference?

colter | coater |

As nouns the difference between colter and coater

is that colter is a knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard while coater is a machine that coats material with a fluid.

colter

English

Alternative forms

* coulter (mostly Commonwealth )

Noun

(en noun)
  • A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.9:
    • I lately left a furrow, one or twayne, / Unplough'd, the which my coulter hath not cleft […].
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
    • 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.
  • The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

    • References

    * Chambers's Etymological Dictionary , 1896, p. 82

    Anagrams

    * lector

    coater

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A machine that coats material with a fluid.
    • The curtain coater broke down and the factory had to close temporarily.