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Webster 1828 Edition

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.

Definition 2024

plowshare

plowshare

English

Alternative forms

ploughshare

Noun

plowshare ‎(plural plowshares)

(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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Translations

cutting edge of a plow

Albanian: plor (sq) m
Armenian: խոփ (hy) ‎(xopʿ)
Aromanian: vomirã f
Czech: radlice (cs) f
Dutch: ploegschaar f, ploegijzer n
Estonian: adratera
Finnish: vannas (fi), auranvannas
French: soc (fr) m
German: Schar (de) f, Pflugeisen n, Pflugschar f
Hungarian: eke vas
Irish: iarnach m
Italian: vomere (it) m
Japanese: 刃先 ‎(hasaki)
Korean: 가래 (ko) ‎(garae), 보습 (boseup) (for plough)
Latin: vomer m
Latvian: lemesis m
Low German: Ploogschoor f

Maori: mata parau
Norwegian:

Bokmål: plogskjær n

Nynorsk: plogskjer n
Polish: lemiesz (pl) m
Portuguese: relha f
Romanian: brăzdar (ro) n
Russian: ле́мех (ru) m ‎(lémex), со́шник (ru) m ‎(sóšnik)
Serbo-Croatian: lemeš (sh) m, raonik (sh) m
Slovak: radlica f
Slovene: lemež m
Spanish: reja (es) f
Sundanese: lanjam
Swedish: skär (sv) n, bill (sv) c, plogbill (sv) c
Tagalog: palinta, lipya
Walloon: schî (wa) m
Yiddish: אַקער־אײַזן m ‎(aker-ayzn)

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