plough-share

Now for all the women to tend kine, to don armour of bronze, and to cleave with the plough-share the wheat-bearing fields, was easier than the works of Athena, with which they were busied aforetime.

The Argonautica 2008

The ship tore on; leaving such a furrow in the sea as when a cannonball, missent, becomes a plough-share and turns up the level field.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

For a less value than a thousand _paṇas_, one shall not go through the ordeal of the [heated] iron plough-share, of poison, or of the scales: but in case of offence against the monarch or great crime, purifications [172] shall always be gone through.

Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya W.A [Translator] Montriou

The spirit that prompted Putnam to reverse the Scriptural promise, and beat the plough-share into the sword, kindled kindred feelings in the breast of Williams.

A sketch of the life and services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams Read before the Maryland historical society, on Thursday evening, March 6, 1851 Osmond Tiffany

Now follow in the same furrow with an implement we call here a sub-soil stirrer, and which is simply a plough-share of wedge shape, running in the bottom of the furrow, and a strong coulter, running up from it through the beam of the plough, sharp in front, to cut the roots; the depth of the furrow is regulated by a movable wheel running in front, which can be set by a screw.

The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines George Husmann

In many places the declivities are seamed with trenches some forty or fifty feet deep, appearing as if they were made by a gigantic plough-share which, instead of sand, casts up huge masses of rock on either side, in parallel mounds, like the morains of a glacier.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

The plough-share surfaces (as they are called) are nevertheless well cut back to concentrate the lateral pressures against the external buttresses.

Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See George Worley

I haven't said that _Peter Jackson_ gave up cigars and cigarettes for the sword, and beat that into a plough-share for a small-holding when the War was done.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25 Various

_In these battles, the hero Balarama, whose weapon was a plough-share, would take no part, because kinsmen of his were fighting in each army.

Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Kalidasa

Now for all the women to tend kine, to don armour of bronze, and to cleave with the plough-share the wheat-bearing fields, was easier than the works of

The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius