The word 'plowshare' is correct and usable in written English
It refers to the cutting blade of a plow, used for breaking up and turning over soil in farming. Example: The farmer carefully sharpened the plowshare before heading out to the field to prepare the soil for planting.
He may originally have been an agricultural deity, for as early as the 2nd 1st century bce he was depicted holding a plowshare and a pestle, with a snake canopy above his head.
The 18th-century addition of the moldboard, which turned the furrow slice cut by the plowshare, was an important advance.
However, if she is not sufficiently appeased with herrings and dumplings or pancakes at the Feast of Epiphany, she becomes the Stomach-Slasher, a demon who will rip open the stomachs of those who have wronged her, take her due, and then sew the wound with a plowshare as a needle and chains for thread.
After the unsuccessful police drama The Rookie (1990), his revisionist western Unforgiven (1992) featured a towering performance by Eastwood as an erstwhile "regulator" who lays down his plowshare to execute a thug who has disfigured a prostitute.
The animal he wanted to buy was one of the world's rarest tortoises: Astrochelys yniphora, known locally as angonoka and in English as the plowshare tortoise.
By the mid-twentieth century, the plowshare was believed to be possibly extinct.
William Finnegan, in addressing the failures of plowshare-tortoise conservation, quotes the commercial animal trader Olaf Pronk: "The best way to reduce illegal trade is to make a legal trade" ("Slow and Steady," January 23rd).
Alexandra Lakind Brooklyn, N. Y. William Finnegan, in addressing the failures of plowshare-tortoise conservation, quotes the commercial animal trader Olaf Pronk: "The best way to reduce illegal trade is to make a legal trade" ("Slow and Steady," January 23rd).
The A. E. C. and its chief contractor for Plowshare-the U. of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, in Livermore, California, had issued pamphlet reassuring the population about venting.
After Harald had passed an ordeal of walking over hot plowshares, Sigurd I Jerusalemfarer, Magnus III's son and reigning king, recognized him as his brother on the condition that Harald would not claim sovereignty during the lifetime of Sigurd or of his son Magnus (later Magnus IV the Blind).
The prophet also cried out for peace: "and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore".
