Colter vs Cotter - What's the difference?
colter | cotter |
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:
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
(mechanical engineering) A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
(informal) a cotter pin.
As nouns the difference between colter and cotter
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 cotter is (mechanical engineering) a pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together or cotter can be a peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.As a verb cotter is
to fasten with a cotter.colter
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Alternative forms
* coulter (mostly Commonwealth )Noun
(en noun)- I lately left a furrow, one or twayne, / Unplough'd, the which my coulter hath not cleft […].
- 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.