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plowshare

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: plowshares

A plowshare is the cutting blade of a plough. Sharpen the plowshare.

It cuts the soil horizontally while the coulter cuts down, and the mouldboard turns it over. Beating swords into plowshares is the biblical phrase everybody knows the word from.

Original autor: Giancarlo Dessì (gian_d), vector version (and color) Gian Luca Ruggero (aka Actam) · CC BY 3.0

Definitions of plowshare

  1. 1nounplowshareThe cutting blade of a plough.C2

    “The plowshare had to be replaced every second season.”

plowshare is a blade.

Also accepted in games: ploughshare

Where it comes from

Old English plog plus scear, a cutting blade, from the same root as shear.

  1. Middle English

    plowgh-schare

  2. English, today

    plowshare

From Middle English plowgh-schare, plowh schare, equivalent to plow + share. Cognate with stq Plouchskoar (“ploughshare”), West Frisian ploechskaar (“ploughshare”), Dutch ploegschaar (“ploughshare”), German Low German Ploogschoor (“ploughshare”), German Pflugschar (“ploughshare”), Danish plovskær (“ploughshare”), Norwegian plogskjær (“ploughshare”). Eclipsed non-native culter, from culter, borrowed from culter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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plowshare in the wild

  • In agriculture, a plowshare (US) or ploughshare (UK; ) is a component of a plow (or plough).

    Plowshare

  • In well-tilled terrain the plowshare may do duty without a preceding coulter.

    Plowshare

  • A ploughshare, or plowshare, is a component of a plough, or plow.

    Ploughshare (disambiguation)

  • In other words, homi is classified into plowshare-shaped, sickle-shaped, and triangle-shaped depending on the natural conditions of the local area and the characteristics of agricultural management.

    Homi (tool)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.