Plowshare
/ˈplaʊˌʃeər/noun
The cutting blade or iron part of a plow that slices the soil.
Did you know?Plowshare is not a mystical term itself, but it comes from a very old Germanic farming word for the cutting blade of a plow, the part that literally wounds the ground so life can grow.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*pel-
“to split, to peel, to tear”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*plōgaz
“plow”
Old English
OE
plōh
“plow”
Old English
OE
scearu
“a cutting, division, share; later the cutting part of a plow”
Middle English
ME
plough-share
“the cutting blade of a plow”
Modern English
English
plowshare
“the blade or iron part of a plow”
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