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plowshare [′plau̇‚sher] (design engineering) The pointed part of a moldboard plow, which penetrates and cuts the soil first. (hydrology) A wedge-shaped feature developed on a snow surface by further ablation of foam crust. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| And D'Artagnan rubbed his forehead - that fertile land, whence the plowshare of his nails had turned up so many and such admirable ideas in his time. But sometimes Squaw Walden had her revenge, and a hired man, walking behind his team, slipped through a crack in the ground down toward Tartarus, and he who was so brave before suddenly became but the ninth part of a man, almost gave up his animal heat, and was glad to take refuge in my house, and acknowledged that there was some virtue in a stove; or sometimes the frozen soil took a piece of steel out of a plowshare, or a plow got set in the furrow and had to be cut out. I am off, to cultivate the field of public indigestion with the triple plowshare of aloes, scammony and gamboge. |
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