Ploughshare Sentence Examples
- The foot is commonly a simple cylindrical or ploughshare-shaped organ, used for boring in sand and mud, and more rarely presents a crawling disk similar to that of Gastropoda; in some forms it is aborted.
- The ploughshare is again in every quarter turning up a soil which had for many seasons never been stirred, except by the hoofs of predatory cavalry."
- Medieval law books derived the term from socus, ploughshare, and took it to denote primarily agricultural work.
