different between colter vs cotter

English

Alternative forms

• coulter (mostly Commonwealth)
• culter

Etymology

From Old English culter, from Latin culter (“a knife”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??lt?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ko?lt??/

Noun

colter (plural colters)

1. 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 […].
2. The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

Translations

References

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 82

Anagrams

• Cotler, lector

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Etymology 1

Unknown

Noun

cotter (plural cotters)

1. (mechanical engineering) A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
2. (informal) A cotter pin.

Usage notes

The terms cotter and cotter pin are sometimes used interchangeably, although they have different functions. For a more detailed explanation see Wikipedia articles on cotter pin, cotter (pin), and split pin.

Related terms

• cotter pin

Translations

Verb

cotter (third-person singular simple present cotters, present participle cottering, simple past and past participle cottered)

1. (transitive) To fasten with a cotter.

Etymology 2

From Middle English cotter, cotere, kottere, koter, cotier, equivalent to cot (“cottage”) +? -er, from Old English cot. Compare Old French coter, cotier.

Alternative forms

• cottar

Noun

cotter (plural cotters)

1. (historical) A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.

Synonyms

• coscet
• cottager

Translations