Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An iron blade or sharp-edged wheel attached to the beam of a plow to cut the ground and thus facilitate the separation of the furrow-slice by the plowshare. Also culter.
  • noun In medieval armor, a two-handed Flemish weapon with one edge straight and the other curved: so called from its resemblance to the colter of a plow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
  • noun The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil

Etymologies

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From Old English culter, from Latin culter ("a knife")

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  • So much for 'swords into ploughshares', they're pretty much the same thing.

    July 20, 2022

  • Hm. Ploughshares cut into swards.

    July 20, 2022