ploughshare

/ ˈplaʊˌʃɛə /

noun

1. the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough

Example Sentences

Hope, a ploughshare tortoise, has been given a new home at Chester Zoo after being found in a suitcase by Hong Kong customs officers in 2019.

From BBC

Ploughshare tortoises, which are native to Madagascar, are one of the world's rarest animals, with fewer than 300 remaining in the wild.

From BBC

In 2013 authorities at Bangkok's main airport busted a smuggler carrying 54 ploughshare tortoises from Madagascar crammed in a suitcase.

From Salon

The foragers could either run away, abandoning their hunting grounds to field and pasture, or take up the ploughshare themselves.

From Literature

But when Jamie imagines which object might be sent into space as an emissary to alien cultures, she opts for a Neolithic stone ploughshare.

From Nature