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Colter vs Copter - What's the difference?

colter | copter |

As nouns the difference between colter and copter

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 copter is (informal) a helicopter.

As a verb copter is

(informal|transitive) to helicopter: to transport by helicopter.

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

    copter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A helicopter.
  • * 2005 , (the film),
    • Shellie shouts something I can't quite make out over the racket of a passing police copter .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (informal) To helicopter: to transport by helicopter.
  • (informal) To helicopter: to travel by helicopter.