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Definition of Ploughshare
1. Noun. A sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil.
Group relationships: Moldboard Plow, Mouldboard Plough
Generic synonyms: Wedge
Definition of Ploughshare
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of plowshare) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Ploughshare
1.
The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ploughshare
Literary usage of Ploughshare
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Friend of Peace by Noah Worcester, Massachusetts Peace Society (1821)
"THE SWORD AND THE ploughshare. ... They sometimes strangely meet: Unwonted guest
in sylvan scene, A Sword, upon the village green, Beheld a ploughshare set. ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"Monthly and daily frequency of aftershocks, 616 ploughshare appearance of the
fault near Fujitani, 612 Shifting of trees by fault at Ume'hara 745 AFRICA. ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"Fin. wannas, ploughshare ... The radical idea seems to be the opening of the
ground by the ploughshare, from the root vag, vak, which is common to the ..."
4. Personal Recollections of the American Revolution: A Private Journal by Lydia Minturn Post (1859)
"... shall be turned into the ploughshare, and the spear into the pruning hook."
I suppose you will say, " So be it" — after our independence is secured ..."
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