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Coulter (agriculture)

A simple drawn plough: 4) marks the coulter (using an early knife-like design)

A (US:) colter / (British:) coulter (Latin 'culter' = 'knife') is a vertically mounted component of many ploughs that cuts an edge about 7 inches (18 cm) deep ahead of a plowshare.[1] Its most effective depth is determined by soil conditions.[2]

  1. ^ Stephens, Henry (1854). The Book of the Farm Vol 1. W. Blackwood. pp. 271–272.
  2. ^ Bacon, Charles Allen (1920). The Oliver plow book: a treatise on plows and plowing. Oliver Farm Equipment Company. pp. 160–162.
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