plowshare

Questions about plowshare

What does plowshare mean?

plowshare means "a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil".

How many syllables are in plowshare?

plowshare has 2 syllables: plow-share. The stress falls on "plow". In IPA it is /ˈplaʊˌʃeɪɹ/.

What is another word for plowshare?

Close synonyms include ploughshare, share. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plowshare a common word?

plowshare is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.