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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ploughshare/#m1)

2) (Bible) «They shall beat their swords into ploughshares» (Isaiah and Micah) is a picture of peace: weapons are made into farm tools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ploughshare/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ploughshare/#x1)
- The farmer sharpened the ploughshare before spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ploughshare/#x2)
- A statue outside the United Nations shows a man beating a sword into a ploughshare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ploughshare/#x3)
- The ploughshare cut deep into the soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ploughshare/#x4)
- The prophets dreamed of a time when weapons become ploughshares. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ploughshare/#x5)
- Old ploughshares were made of iron. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ploughshare/#x6)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ploughshare/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ploughshare» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/ploughshare/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.