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plough-iron, plow-|ˈplaʊaɪən| [f. plough n.1 + iron n. So ON. plóg-járn plough-iron, plough-share, Da. plov-jærn, LG. plōg-îsen (Doorn.), Du. ploeg-ijzer, OHG. pflug-ysen, Ger. pflugeisen coulter, also ploughshare.] Any iron part of a plough, esp. in pl., the coulter and share.
1418–19[see plough-gear]. 1458Exch. Rolls Scotl. VI. 425 Pro aratris, harpicis, et ferro, et factura de plwe irnys. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §2 In Buckyngham-shyre, are plowes made of an nother maner, and also other maner of ploughe-yrons. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. I. 187/1 In passing barefooted ouer certeine hot shares or plough-irons, according to the law Ordalium. 1596Spenser F.Q. vii. vii. 35 Yet in his time he wrought as well as playd, That by his plough-yrons mote right well appeare. 1791J. Learmont Poems 120 To the plough irons turn'd the hostile spear. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 397 It is..more economical to sharpen the plough-irons every day. |