ploughshare – English noun declension

English noun forms of ploughshare

Noun: ploughshare
Singularploughshare
Pluralploughshares

Sample Sentences

  • Holonyms: plough, plow < implement

Etymology

1. From Middle English plowgh-schare, plowh schare, equivalent to plough + share. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Plouchskoar (“ploughshare”), West Frisian ploechskaar (“ploughshare”), Dutch ploegschaar (“ploughshare”), German Low German Ploogschoor (“ploughshare”), German Pflugschar (“ploughshare”), Danish plovskær (“ploughshare”), Norwegian plogskjær (“ploughshare”).
2. Eclipsed non-native Middle English culter (“ploughshare”), from Old English culter (“ploughshare, coulter, dagger”), borrowed from Latin culter (“knife, razor”). See: Middle English Nouns 'plowgh-schare', Dutch Nouns 'ploegschaar', German Nouns 'Pflugschar'.

Verbs referencing "ploughshare"

Dutch Nouns ploegschaar.