Furrow
['fʌrəʊ] or ['fɝo]
Definition
(noun.) a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow).
(verb.) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; 'furrow soil'.
(verb.) cut a furrow into a columns.
(verb.) make wrinkled or creased; 'furrow one's brow'.
Editor: Sheldon--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.
(n.) Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age.
(n.) To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.
(n.) To mark with channels or with wrinkles.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Trench (made by a plough).[2]. Channel, groove, fluting, chamfer.
v. a. Hollow, cut in furrows.
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Definition
n. the trench made by a plough: any groove: a wrinkle on the face.—v.t. to form furrows in: to groove: to wrinkle.—n. Furr′ow-weed (Shak.) a weed on ploughed land.—-adj. Furr′owy.
Typist: Ludwig
Examples
- The clocks are on the stroke of three, and the furrow ploughed among the populace is turning round, to come on into the place of execution, and end. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Ingenious arrangements generally exist for widening or narrowing the cultivator and for throwing the soil from the centre of the furrow to opposite sides and against the plant. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As the sombre wheels of the six carts go round, they seem to plough up a long crooked furrow among the populace in the streets. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- There's the varnish, too, like earth on each side of a furrow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- At their front these tubes at their lower ends were sharpened to make small furrows into which the seed dropped. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He covered his face with his black hands, over which the tears rolled and made furrows of white. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The skin of her face was seamed and creased with a million deepcut furrows. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Your furrows, he said, stand up like the ribs of a lean horse in the month of March. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Then, I saw that his head was furrowed and bald, and that the long iron-gray hair grew only on its sides. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I found her a furrowed, grey-haired woman, grave with solitude, stern with long affliction, irritable also, and perhaps exacting. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He leaned back in his chair with a furrowed brow. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- She gazed tenderly on her furrowed sire. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The snap-haunce, a straight piece of furrowed steel, superseded the wheel-lock. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This, sir, was purple: the lips were swelled and dark; the brow furrowed: the black eyebrows widely raised over the bloodshot eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The wheel lock consisted of a furrowed wheel and was turned by the trigger and chain against a fixed piece of iron on the stock to excite sparks which fell on to the priming. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Editor: Oswald