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Plowshare

PLOW'SHARE

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Noun.
[See Shear.] The part of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of the furrow, and raises the slice to the mold-board, which turns it over.

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plowshare

plowshare

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plowshare (plural plowshares)

  1. (American) The cutting edge of a plow, typically a metal blade.
    And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Isaiah 2:4, KJV)

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