ploughshare
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The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow.
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Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
The artist who parades his drawing, the writer who wishes to attract praise to his style, resemble the soldier who plumes himself on his unif onn but refuses to go into battle, or the farmer who polishes the ploughshare instead of driving it into the earth.
Let mystery have its place in you do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring ...
By the Han period, the entire ploughshare was made of cast iron ; these are the first known heavy mouldboard iron ploughs.
An advance on the basic design was the iron ploughshare, a replaceable horizontal cutting surface mounted on the tip of the share.