plowshare

English

Alternative forms

• ploughshare

Etymology

plow +‎ share

Noun

plowshare (plural plowshares)

1. (American spelling) The cutting edge of a plow, typically a metal blade.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 2:4:

     And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: 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 any more.

Related terms

• plough
• plow
• share

Translations

cutting edge of a plow

• Albanian: plor (sq) m
• Arabic: مِيكَعَة (mīkaʕa)
• Armenian: խոփ (hy) (xopʻ)
• Aromanian: vomirã f
• Bulgarian: лемеж m (lemež), палешник (bg) m (palešnik)
• Catalan: rella (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耜 (zh) (sì)

• Czech: radlice (cs) f
• Danish: plovskær n
• Dutch: ploegschaar (nl) f, ploegijzer n
• Estonian: adratera
• Finnish: vannas (fi), auranvannas
• French: soc (fr) m
• Galician: rella (gl) f, palmela (gl) f, ferro (gl) m
• German: Schar (de) f, Pflugeisen n, Pflugschar (de) f
• Greek: αλετροπόδα (el) f (aletropóda)
• Hungarian: ekevas (hu)
• Icelandic: plógjárn n
• Irish: iarnach m
• Italian: vomere (it) m
• Japanese: 刃先 (ja) (hasaki)
• Korean: 가래 (ko) (garae), 보습 (boseup) (for plough)
• Latin: vomer m
• Latvian: lemesis m
• Lithuanian: žãgrė
• Low German: Ploogschoor f
• Macedonian: ра́лник m (rálnik), ле́меш m (lémeš), па́личник m (páličnik)
• Maori: mata parau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: plogskjær n

  Nynorsk: plogskjer n

• Old English: scear n
• Ottoman Turkish: صبان دمیری (saban demiri)
• Plautdietsch: Pluachschoa f
• Polish: lemiesz (pl) m
• Portuguese: relha (pt) f
• Romanian: brăzdar (ro) n
• Russian: ле́мех (ru) m (lémex), со́шник (ru) m (sóšnik)
• Serbo-Croatian: lemeš (sh) m, raonik (sh) m
• Slovak: radlica f
• Slovene: lemež m
• Spanish: reja (es) f
• Sundanese: lanjam
• Swedish: skär (sv) n, bill (sv) c, plogbill (sv) c
• Tagalog: palinta, lipya
• Turkish: saban demiri (tr)
• Walloon: schî (wa) m
• Welsh: swch f
• Yiddish: אַקער־אײַזן m (aker-ayzn)

See also

• scallop
• scar
• shear