plough-iron, plow-
(ˈplaʊaɪən)
[f. plough n.1 + iron n. So ON. plóg-járn plough-iron, plough-share, Da. plov-jærn, LG. plōg-îsen (Doorn.), Du. ploeg-ijzer, OHG. pflug-ysen, Ger. pflugeisen coulter, also ploughshare.]
Any iron part of a plough, esp. in pl., the coulter and share.
| 1418–19 [see plough-gear]. 1458 Exch. Rolls Scotl. VI. 425 Pro aratris, harpicis, et ferro, et factura de plwe irnys. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §2 In Buckyngham-shyre, are plowes made of an nother maner, and also other maner of ploughe-yrons. 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. I. 187/1 In passing barefooted ouer certeine hot shares or plough-irons, according to the law Ordalium. 1596 Spenser F.Q. vii. vii. 35 Yet in his time he wrought as well as playd, That by his plough-yrons mote right well appeare. 1791 J. Learmont Poems 120 To the plough irons turn'd the hostile spear. 1844 Stephens Bk. Farm II. 397 It is..more economical to sharpen the plough-irons every day. |