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In Agriculture , a plowshare (or '''ploughshare''') is the cutting or leading edge of a moldboard (or mouldboard) which closely follows the Coulter (a ground-breaking spike) when Plowing (or ploughing). The plowshare itself is often a hardened Blade dressed into an integral mouldboard (by the Blacksmith ) so making a unified combination of plowshare and moldboard, the whole being responsible for entering the cleft in the earth (made by the coulter's first cutting-through) and turning the earth over. In well-tilled terrain the plowshare may do duty without a preceding coulter. In modern ploughs both coulter and plowshare are detachable for easy replacement when worn or broken. ANATOMY In the Anatomy of Bird s, the plowshare bone is the Pygostyle or Vomer . SWORDS VS. PLOWSHARES The ''plowshare'' is often used to symbolize creative tools that benefit mankind, as opposed to destructive tools of war, symbolized by the '' Sword '', a similar sharp metal tool with an arguably opposite use. The common expession "beat swords into plowshares" has been used by disparate social and political groups. This Analogy is used several times in the '' Bible '' such as in the following verses:
An expression of this concept can be seen a Bronze statue in the United Nations garden called ''Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares'', a 1959 gift from the Soviet Union sculpted by Evgeniy Vuchetich , representing the figure of a man hammering a sword into the shape of a plowshare. SEE ALSO
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