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Ploughshare meaning
The cutting edge of a plough, typically a metal blade.
Example sentences (7)
While super-secret Operation Ploughshare was scratched, the Weasel went on to lead a long and productive, if unheralded, life.
We cannot continue to see the seeming triumph of the guns over the ploughshare.
An advance on the basic design was the iron ploughshare, a replaceable horizontal cutting surface mounted on the tip of the share.
By the Han period, the entire ploughshare was made of cast iron ; these are the first known heavy mouldboard iron ploughs.
The ploughshare spread the cut horizontally below the surface, so when the mouldboard lifted it, a wider area of soil was turned over.
The plough uses a moveable weight to hold the ploughshare in position.
While customs duties were imposed on traders, and tribute and tithes were exacted from 25-30 tribes, with a levy of one sable skin, squirrel pelt, sword, dirham per hearth or ploughshare, or hides, wax, honey and livestock, depending on the zone.