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Definition of ploughshare in English: ploughshare(US plowshare) noun ˈplaʊʃɛːˈplaʊˌʃɛr The main cutting blade of a plough, behind the coulter. Example sentencesExamples - Heavier plows with wheels, horizontal plowshares, and a moldboard were invented, which cut down on manual labor.
- They made tools, ploughshares, chariots, chain armour, and many more strong and serviceable implements.
- Each day I must yoke the oxen and fasten the ploughshare to the plough.
- The Shearer brothers produced cast-iron ploughshares and from 1888 onwards wrought steel ploughshares.
- Though they supplied handicraft products essential to the country and society, including ploughshares and spear heads, as well as pots and cloth of all kinds, they tended to be despised by the rest of the population.
- ‘We need ploughshares and seeds not bombs and martyrs,’ he insisted.
Origin Late Middle English: from plough + Old English scær, scear 'ploughshare' (related to shear). Definition of plowshare in US English: plowshare(British ploughshare) nounˈplouˌSHerˈplaʊˌʃɛr The main cutting blade of a plow, behind the coulter. Example sentencesExamples - The Shearer brothers produced cast-iron ploughshares and from 1888 onwards wrought steel ploughshares.
- Though they supplied handicraft products essential to the country and society, including ploughshares and spear heads, as well as pots and cloth of all kinds, they tended to be despised by the rest of the population.
- Heavier plows with wheels, horizontal plowshares, and a moldboard were invented, which cut down on manual labor.
- ‘We need ploughshares and seeds not bombs and martyrs,’ he insisted.
- They made tools, ploughshares, chariots, chain armour, and many more strong and serviceable implements.
- Each day I must yoke the oxen and fasten the ploughshare to the plough.
Origin Late Middle English: from plow + Old English scær, scear ‘plowshare’ (related to shear). |