The 18th-century addition of the moldboard, which turned the furrow slice cut by the plowshare, was an important advance. |
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By the mid-twentieth century, the plowshare was believed to be possibly extinct. |
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Mounted on the tires arranged on three rows are n.25 attachments and 35x35 curled springs and reversible plowshare. |
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Mounted on the 80 mm laminate squares arranged in two rows are attachments with 25x25 double spiral springs or 30x30 double spiral springs and reversible plowshare. |
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He may originally have been an agricultural deity, for as early as the 2nd 1st century bce he was depicted holding a plowshare and a pestle, with a snake canopy above his head. |
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The hard, plodding work of plowing makes the plowshare shine as it goes down the row turning up the sillion. |
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The animal he wanted to buy was one of the world's rarest tortoises: Astrochelys yniphora, known locally as angonoka and in English as the plowshare tortoise. |
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In the center, they would set up a pole: The shade following the sun's path acted as a compass and allowed them to determine the limits that a plowshare would then draw in the ground. |
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