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Culter vs Colter - What's the difference?

culter | colter |

As a proper noun culter

is .

As a noun colter is

a knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.

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