ploughshare

«ploughshare» in Mova's school dictionary: The sharp metal blade of a plough that cuts into the soil — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a ploughshare, ploughshares; US plowshare)

meaning for a pupil

1) The sharp metal blade of a plough that cuts into the soil. tree →

2) (Bible) «They shall beat their swords into ploughshares» (Isaiah and Micah) is a picture of peace: weapons are made into farm tools. tree →

sense in the lessons

In religion lessons and peace talks, «swords into ploughshares» means stopping war and using things to help people grow food. In history and farming lessons a ploughshare is part of the plough pulled by oxen or horses. Phrases: «swords into ploughshares», «beat swords into ploughshares».

examples

• «They shall beat their swords into ploughshares.» tree →
• The farmer sharpened the ploughshare before spring. tree →
• A statue outside the United Nations shows a man beating a sword into a ploughshare. tree →
• The ploughshare cut deep into the soil. tree →
• The prophets dreamed of a time when weapons become ploughshares. tree →
• Old ploughshares were made of iron. tree →
• They never knew when they were safe from him, as he could change himself into a man, woman or child, a stick, a goat, a ploughshare. tree →

note

UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ spelling: plough (said «plow»); US: plow, plowshare. Countable. Mostly used today in the Bible phrase.

In the corpora

• The prophet Isaiah dreamed of a world where the wolf lives with the lamb and swords are beaten into ploughshares.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ploughshare» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.