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How to pronounce ploughshare in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms plowshare, share
Type of wedge

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The Berthouville hoard was discovered when a ploughshare struck a Roman tile.
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Other species suffer from illegal trade, as in the case of the ploughshare tortoise.
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They also had a more derived pygostyle, with a ploughshare-shaped end.
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The plough uses a moveable weight to hold the ploughshare in position.
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The basic plough with coulter, ploughshare and mouldboard remained in use for a millennium.
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Eric Goode and his team hope to mate two ploughshare tortoises, one of the rarest species in the world.
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In late March, 54 ploughshare tortoises made it as far as Thailand before being seized by authorities.
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Ploughshare tortoise, found only in Madagascar, is being collected out of existence by illegal wildlife traffickers.
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The ploughshare spread the cut horizontally below the surface, so when the mouldboard lifted it, a wider area of soil was turned over.
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More examples
  • Plowshare: a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil
  • Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston. ...
  • The large pointed blade of a plow which cuts a slice of earth.