plowshare

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English

Alternative forms

• ploughshare

Etymology

plow + share

Noun

plowshare (plural plowshares)

1. 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)

Related terms

• plough
• plow
• share

Translations

The cutting edge of a plow, typically a metal blade.

• Albanian: cillestër (sq) f
• Armenian: խոփ (hy) (xopʿ)
• Estonian: adratera (et)
• Finnish: vannas (fi)
• French: soc (fr) m
• German: Pflug (de) m, Pflugeisen (de) n, Pflugschar (de) f
• Hungarian: ekevas
• Irish: iarnach (ga) m
• Japanese: 刃先 (ja) (hasaki)
• Korean: 가래 (garae), 보습 (boseup) (for plough)

• Latin: vomer (la) m
• Latvian: lemesis (lv) m
• Low German: Ploogschoor (nds) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: plogskjær (no) n

  Nynorsk: plogskjer (nn) n

• Russian: лемех (ru) (lémeχ) m, сошник (ru) (sóšnik) m
• Serbian: lemeš m, raonik m
• Slovene: lemež (sl) m
• Spanish: reja (es) f

See also

• scallop
• scar
• shear