单词 | coulter |
释义 | coultercoltern. 1. The iron blade fixed in front of the share in a plough; it makes a vertical cut in the soil, which is then sliced horizontally by the share. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > coulter coulterc1000 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 90 Gefæstnodon sceare and cultre mid ðære syl. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 99 Hwanon ðam yrþlingc sylanscear oþþe culter. a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 313 Vomer, scear. Cultor, culter. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iv. 464 To schare or to kulter. c1386 G. Chaucer Miller's Tale 577 A smyth..That in his forge smythed plowh~harneys; He scharpeth schar and cultre bysily. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1547 As a coltour in clay cerues þo forȝes. 1558 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 170 A kowter, a soke, a muk fowe, a graype, 2 yerne forks. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15 Two plows & a plowchein .ii. culters .iii. shares. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xiii. 20 To sharpen euery man his share and his coulter . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 46 While that the Culter rusts, That should deracinate such Sauagery. View more context for this quotation 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 334/2 A Plow Culter, or Cooter vulgarly. c1745 M. Akenside To Sir F. H. Drake in Odes i. xii. He whets the rusty coulter. 1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 34 The coulter and the share were in one, and the [ancient Egyptian] plough was constructed without wheels. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] saxa800 knifea1100 trencherc1330 coultera1382 shear1382 thwittlec1405 prag1481 cuttle1551 chiv1673 machine knife1867 mackerel plougha1884 a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 273 Sicca, cultur.] a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxiii. 2 Set a culter in thi throte. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. (First quot. doubtful.) ΚΠ 1630 in Lex Londinensis (1680) 201 That no man..shall presume to shute any Draw-net or Coulter-net..before sun rising nor after sun setting. a1740 Tull in Chambers Cycl. Supp. at Coulter Its right side above, to bear against the upper edge of the coulter hole. 1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 297 Two coulter bars..containing grooves..for the reception of bolts and screws, by which the coulters are fastened. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon v. 116 A sharp comb welded on the coulter margin of the share. 1834 R. Mudie Feathered Tribes Brit. Islands I. 154 Bill..coulter-shaped. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Coulter-box..the iron clip and screw by which the coulter is fixed in its place on the beam. Derivatives ˈcoultered adj. as in four-coultered, having four coulters. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [adjective] > having specific coulter(s) finned1707 four-coultereda1740 skim-coultered1805 a1740 Tull in Chambers Cycl. Supp. at Coulter In the four coultered plough. 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. ix. 205 The plough with two coulters..will not..do near so much work as the four-coultered plough. 1847 in D. Drake Pioneer Life Kentucky (1870) iii. 45 After a first ‘breaking up’ with the coultered plow, the shovel plow was in general use. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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