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What (who) is Plowshare - definition

BLADE OF A PLOW, USED FOR TURNING EARTH

Plow share; Ploughshare

Plowshare

·noun ·Alt. of Ploughshare.

plowshare

(plowshares)

see ploughshare

ploughshare

(ploughshares)

Note: in AM, use 'plowshare'

If you say that swords have been turned into ploughshares or beaten into ploughshares, you mean that a state of conflict between two or more groups of people has ended and a period of peace has begun. (JOURNALISM)

PHRASE: V inflects

Wikipedia

Plowshare

In agriculture, a plowshare (US) or ploughshare (UK; ) is a component of a plow (or plough). It is the cutting or leading edge of a moldboard which closely follows the coulter (one or more ground-breaking spikes) when plowing.

The plowshare itself is often a hardened blade dressed into an integral moldboard (by the blacksmith) so making a unified combination of plowshare and moldboard, the whole being responsible for entering the cleft in the earth (made by the coulter's first cutting-through) and turning the earth over.

In well-tilled terrain the plowshare may do duty without a preceding coulter.

In modern plows both coulter and plowshare are detachable for easy replacement when worn or broken.

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Examples of use of Plowshare

1. There is a famous scene in "The Twelve Chairs" when the wheeler–dealer hero Ostap Bender pretends to have come from Berlin on a mission and sets up a monarchist Union of the Sword and the Plowshare at a provincial town.

2. Kaine, who took part in a ribbon–cutting ceremony, said the center embodies the Old Testament phrase beating a sword into a plowshare.‘‘ A ship built as a weapon of war, he said, now is the centerpiece of an educational museum in a reunited nation not at war with itself.‘‘ The Monitor, a new design, and the Virginia, built atop the burned–out hull of the Union steam frigate Merrimack, fought to a draw on March ', 1862, near where the museum now stands.

3. Kaine, who took part in a ribbon–cutting ceremony, said the center embodies the Old Testament phrase "beating a sword into a plowshare." A ship built as a weapon of war, he said, now is "the centerpiece of an educational museum in a reunited nation not at war with itself." The Monitor, a new design, and the Virginia, built atop the burned–out hull of the Union steam frigate Merrimack, fought to a draw on March ', 1862, near where the museum now stands.