Molter vs Colter - What's the difference?
molter | colter |
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.
As nouns the difference between molter and colter
is that molter is one who, or that which, molts or sheds while 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)- 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.