Ploughshears

[Dennis Powney]

The ploughshear is neither the disk, or part of the mouldboard of a plough. It is a separate item, basically triangular in shape, which bolts onto the front of the mouldboard and can be easily replaced when worn out. The mouldboard turns the soil over once it has been cut, below ground, by the ploughshear.
Farmer Powney, in Wonderful Wiltshire!
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  From: Carl S Zimmerman 
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        Continuing the comparison of national spelling variants, it's "plowshares" on this side of the pond.  For those not conversant with farm operation, a plowshare is the part of the plow which cuts the earth, and it can be shaped as either a disk or a moldboard.

        Carl



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          Plowsheards i.e. ploughshears as in 
            They will beat their swords into ploughshears and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. — Isaiah 2:4 & Micah 4:3 


  

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