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Colter vs Coster - What's the difference?

colter | coster |

As nouns the difference between colter and coster

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 coster is costermonger.

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

    coster

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • costermonger
  • *, chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}

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