plow·share

(plou′shâr′)

The cutting blade of a plow; a share.

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plow•share

(ˈplaʊˌʃɛər)

n.

the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.

[1350–1400]

Plowshare

The part of a turning plow that provides the cutting edge. It incurs most of the wear and must be periodically sharpened and, less often, replaced.

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Noun

plowshare - a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil

ploughshare, share

moldboard plow, mouldboard plough - plow that has a moldboard

wedge - something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them

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And what else can he be after?" And D'Artagnan rubbed his forehead - that fertile land, whence the plowshare of his nails had turned up so many and such admirable ideas in his time.

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"Michel," said Barbicane, "can you use a forge without a hammer, or a plow without a plowshare?"

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But sometimes Squaw Walden had her revenge, and a hired man, walking behind his team, slipped through a crack in the ground down toward Tartarus, and he who was so brave before suddenly became but the ninth part of a man, almost gave up his animal heat, and was glad to take refuge in my house, and acknowledged that there was some virtue in a stove; or sometimes the frozen soil took a piece of steel out of a plowshare, or a plow got set in the furrow and had to be cut out.

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I am off, to cultivate the field of public indigestion with the triple plowshare of aloes, scammony and gamboge." He stopped and turned round at the door.

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He came from hot plowshares to prospects of clover tranquilly, and it was as if hot plowshares were not.

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He may find his six feet of earth when God chooses, and keep it in peace, perhaps, if he has a friend who will take the pains to sink his head so low that the plowshares cannot reach it!"

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The faultily constructed plowshares in use in some parts of France were unknown here, the hoe sufficed for the little field work that they did.

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Plowshare's neighbors include life science, tech and a range of arts and culture groups as well as non-profit organizations such as West Harlem Development Corp., African Services Committee, Graham-Windham and AVAC.

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After a plowshare is heated red-hot in a forge to make it malleable, it is taken to the trip hammer and a portion of the worn edge is hammered thin.

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14 November 2017 - New York, US-based healthcare communications network Publicis Health has acquired Connecticut, US-based communications agency PlowShare Group, which focusses on serving nonprofit organisations and government agencies, the company said.

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America, he explains, conquers with the plowshare of the laborer; Russia conquers with the sword of the soldier.

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