ploughshares
Farming blade equipment
Ploughshares are the cutting blades of ploughs—the broad, flat metal pieces that slice into soil and turn it over.
The word appears most often in the biblical phrase beat swords into ploughshares, meaning to convert instruments of war into tools of peaceful agriculture.
The American spelling is plowshares.
Reducing or eliminating weapons
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- nonviolencePrincipled rejection of force
- treatiesFormal agreements between states
- diplomacyNegotiation between nations
reconciliation · Isaiah · ceasefire · armistice · demilitarization · conversion · peacemaking · truce
Soil preparation for planting
- furrowNarrow trench in earth
- soilGround matter for planting
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- plowTool for turning soil
sowing · seedbed · harvest · crop · arable · husbandry · fieldwork · tractor
Furnace for shaping metal
- anvilMetal-shaping block
- blacksmithIron-shaping craftsperson
- hammeringStriking repeatedly with force
- ironworkObjects shaped from heated metal
tempering · tongs · furnace · smelting · wrought iron · steel · beaten · shaped
Reshaping by heat, hammer
- repurposeAdapt for new use
- conversionAct of changing states
- reshapeGive different form
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
disarmament
Reducing or eliminating weapons
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- nonviolencePrincipled rejection of force
- treatiesFormal agreements between states
diplomacy · reconciliation · Isaiah · ceasefire · armistice · demilitarization · conversion · peacemaking · truce · accord
tillage
Soil preparation for planting
- furrowNarrow trench in earth
- soilGround matter for planting
- cultivationFostering growth through care
plow · sowing · seedbed · harvest · crop · arable · husbandry · fieldwork · tractor · harrowing
forge
Furnace for shaping metal
- anvilMetal-shaping block
- blacksmithIron-shaping craftsperson
- hammeringStriking repeatedly with force
ironwork · tempering · tongs · furnace · smelting · wrought iron · steel · beaten · shaped · crafted
reforging
Reshaping by heat, hammer
- repurposeAdapt for new use
- conversionAct of changing states
- reshapeGive different form