A sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil

Usage examples of plowshare.

The sharp steel plowshare followed it, slicing underneath the matted grass roots, and the moldboard lifted the long, straight-edged strip of sod and turned it upside down.

The lantern glow played among the shovels and picks, the wagon rims and plowshares, woven baskets and sacks of weevilly seed and dried fruit that hung from the exposed rafters overhead.

Even if they survived the harsh conditions until spring, their plowshares and other tools needed to be in good repair for planting time.

They liked the line in his speech about beating swords not just into plowshares but into fields, which, indeed, the former naval air station had begun to resemble following the rather vigorous target-practice sessions.

Dark smoke rolled up out of the chimney, wheels and rims leaned against the walls, bits of harness, broken plowshares, mended scythes, and such lay about the yard.

Go back and turn the plowshares into the swords we must have to defend our na­tion and destroy the Antichrists of Moscow.

After the yearly harvest, the women of the Kota craftspeople fashioned pots and carried them, along with iron hoes, forks and plowshares forged by their husbands, to the village of the Badaga farmers.

This stage one of the Brownian movement-restriction field-induction coil, portable subtype, can be easily plowshared into an inexpensive source to chill beer on excursions lasting over seven hours.

Behind the initials was a metaphor, a delirium tremens, a trembling unfurrowing of the mind's plowshare.

The land lay winter fallow still, but men and women were already oiling plowshares and tending harnesses, preparing for the planting to come.