Translation for "ploughshare" to spanish

Ploughshare

noun

• reja del arado

Translation examples

reja del arado noun

Trams sped past, their trolleys flashing vivid sparks along the wires against the leaden sky, their wheels cutting like ploughshares through the torrent on the road and throwing the water up on either side.
Los tranvías corrían sin detenerse, lanzando al cielo plomizo las chispas de sus antenas y el agua salía de los carriles como la tierra proyectada por la reja del arado.

In sank the great wedge, into his heart, and as it cut its way hundreds of horsemen were thrown up on either side of it, just as the earth is thrown up by a ploughshare, or more like still, as the foaming water curls over beneath the bows of a rushing ship.
La cuña penetró hasta el corazón de las fuerzas enemigas y, al abrirse camino, cientos de jinetes salieron por los aires, como se levanta la tierra bajo la reja del arado o como se abren las olas del mar al paso de un buque.

Slave labor dug under with the seed and struggling to rise with the sap toward the fruit, sheaves of mud that the ploughshare sprays at you, that nervous air as the man in the necktie or a storm approaches, all of this had once been his lot, and maybe he had loved it, as a man loves what he knows.
esos trabajos de negros que se enterraban con la semilla y penaban con la savia hacia el fruto, esas botas de lodo que deja la reja del arado, ese aire inquieto cuando llega la tormenta o el hombre encorbatado, todo eso antaño le había tocado en suerte, y tal vez lo había amado, como se ama lo que se conoce;