plow-handle

They were thick, roughened with needle and hot iron and plow-handle.

Main Street 2004

They were thick, roughened with needle and hot iron and plow-handle.

Main Street 1920

They were thick, roughened with needle and hot iron and plow-handle.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

He has won his coveted prize in this respect; and each step of his life, from the plow-handle to the Bishopric, has been markedly illustrious.

A School History of the Negro Race in America, from 1619 to 1890, With a Short Introduction as to the Origin of the Race; Also a Short Sketch of Liberia. Edward Austin 1890

I tell you, child, religion is good anywhere -- at the plow-handle, at the hoe-handle, anywhere.

The House of Bondage or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves, Original and Life-like, as They Appeared in Their Old Plantation and City Slave Life; Together with Pen-pictures of the Peculiar Institution, with Sights and Insights into Their new Relations as Freedmen, Freemen, and Citizens. Octavia Victoria Rogers 1890

Rittenhouse first calculated eclipses on his plow-handle.

Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887

So saying, he threw his plow-line over the plow-handle, and mounted the panel of the fence next to the one on which Bushie was sitting, and squared himself for the confab, which the little master opened thus;

Burl Morrison Heady 1872

They looked like wary jungle things that had been belled from the thicket, but for just a second; then Sam threw his line around the plow-handle, thus hitching the mule to himself, and came running across the field to me, as lightly as the blue jay skimmed from over my head into the branches of another cedar in answer to the same twit I had heard the day I first came out into the habitation of the birds.

Over Paradise Ridge A Romance Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

No, indeed - you think so; very well, just try it, "replied the good man, yielding his place to the First Consul, who took the plow-handle, and making the team start, commenced to give his lesson.

Recollections of the private life of Napoleon Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 1895

No! Give me the plow-handle and I'll cut the furrow, George. "

It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849