Crossword-Solution: PLOWSHARE 9 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Plowshare n. Alt. of Ploughshare

We have 5 clues for the answer “PLOWSHARE”

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Biblical exchange for sword 1 answer
Cutting blade of a kind. 1 answer
Furrow creator 1 answer
Something to beat your sword into 1 answer
Sword in peacetime. 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
TELCORE
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with PLOWSHARE (5)

Then came the hard times that brought every one on the Divide to the brink of despair; three years of drouth and failure, the last struggle of a wild soil against the encroaching plowshare.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Then flashed a yellow gleam across the world, And where it smote the plowshare in the field, The plowman left his plowing, and fell down Before it; where it glittered on her pail, The milkmaid left her milking, and fell down Before it, and I knew not why, but thought ‘The sun is rising,’ though the sun had risen.
Idylls of the King Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1996
Colbert? And what else can he be after?” 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.
The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas, Père 2001
Her curious pupae, so powerfully equipped to force an outlet for the perfect insect incapable of the least effort, those pupae armed with a multiple plowshare at the fore, a trident at the rear and rows of harpoons on the back wherewith to rip open the Osmia bee's cocoon and break through the hard crust of the hillside, betokened a field that was worth cultivating.
The Life of the Fly J. Henri Fabre 2002
The last two exceed the others in length and stand out from the group in a double terminal plowshare.
The Life of the Fly J. Henri Fabre 2002

Quotes with PLOWSHARE (2)

Perrotte frowned. “I’d like to turn a plowshare into a sword ,” she said. “I’d cut our way out of those thorns, and then use it to run my enemies through — ”She bit off her next words and swallowed them. Sand stared at her, aghast. She met his eyes, defiant. “What? You don’t like bloodthirstiness?” she asked. “Pardon? No. I’m horrified that you would dull a sword on that thorn brake. I could make you some pretty good hedge shears.
Merrie Haskell The Castle Behind Thorns
Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen, or were in a glorified state, then the strong torrents of Divine joy would be the normal force to open up all our souls' capacities; but in a fallen world, sorrow, with despair taken out of it, is the chosen power to reveal ourselves to ourselves. Hence it is sorrow that makes us think deeply, long, and soberly.
Lettie B. Cowman
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, WSJ.

Used 5 times in crossword archives (1955–2018).