colter

See coulter.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊltɚ/

colter (plural colters)

2. (US, less common variant) Alternative spelling of coulter.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     I lately left a furrow, one or twayne,
     Unplough'd, the which my coulter hath not cleft […]

   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:

     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.

   • 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 150:

     With colters bright the rushy sward bisect,
     And in new veins the gushing rills direct […]

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

• Cotler, ECRLOT, lector

colter

1. alternative form of culter