noun
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A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
definition
The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
Examples of coulter in a Sentence
The working parts of the plough are the coulter, the share, and the breast or mould-board.
The coulter (either knife or disk) and sometimes a skim-coulter (or jointer) are attached adjustably to the beam, so as to act in the front of the share.
The coulter is a knife or revolving disk which is fixed so that its point clears the point of the share.
In operation the coulter makes a perpendicular cut separating the furrow-slice which is divided from the "sole" of the furrow Crested Furrow.
As Coulter and Chamberlain express it, " the habitats of the Gymnosperms to-day indicate that they either are not at home in the more genial conditions affected by Angiosperms, or have not been able to maintain themselves in competition with this group of plants."
The skim-coulter is shaped like a miniature plough, substituted for or fixed in front of the coulter; it is used chiefly on lea land, to pare off the surface of the soil together with the vegetation thereon, and turn it into the previous furrow, where it is immediately buried by the furrow slice.
Right wing conservative author and political pundit Ann Coulter cries conspiracy as the Today show decided to ditch her scheduled appearance.
It was reportedly explained to Ms. Coulter that she was bumped in order to devote more coverage of the ever-escalating conflicts in the Middle East, but Ann's not buying it.
So, if we have this correct, Ann Coulter believes that NBC executives (part of what she refers to as the "liberal media") gathered around in a conference room working out diabolical plans to prevent her from selling books.
Although it has been rumored in the past that Coulter was previously banned from ever appearing on the NBC network, execs say that this is simply not true.
Coulter doesn't sound so ready to make nice though as she's been crying about her bumped NBC appearance on her website.
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The Subtle Knife ended with Lyra in the clutches of her real mother, the evil Mrs. Coulter, and Will in the company of two 'angels' in another world, looking for her father, Lord Azriel, who intends to overthrow God himself.