plowshare

Definitions

Examples

• I am gazing again upon the sepulchre of the old South, after the plowshare of war and reconstruction had run the last furrow.

• I do not exaggerate very grossly when I say that a blacksmith would have hammered a plowshare out of his hard face.

• He stepped to the adjoining field, and, selecting a clod with the steely polish of the plowshare upon it, threw it at the mare.

• The beaver and the mink de42sert the streams whenever the plowshare disturbs the soil.

• All his farming had been done with calloused hands on the plowshare.