ploughshare

The bridegroom carries a ploughshare, and the bride a small pot containing conji (rice gruel).

Auruncans and Rutulians sow on it, work the stiff hills with the ploughshare, and pasture them where they are roughest.

It is only the ploughshare that cleaves the soil; but to effect this, other parts of the plough are requisite.

This was succeeded by a sensation of having my nose converted into a ploughshare, and that was instantly followed by oblivion!