Harrow
['hærəʊ]
Definition
(noun.) a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil.
(verb.) draw a harrow over (land).
Typed by Jeanette--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.
(n.) An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
(n.) To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land.
(n.) To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.
(interj.) Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor;-the ancient Norman hue and cry.
(v. t.) To pillage; to harry; to oppress.
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Definition
n. a frame of wood or iron toothed with spikes for smoothing and pulverising ploughed land and for covering seeds sown.—v.t. to draw a harrow over: to harass: to tear.—adj. Harr′owing acutely distressing to the mind.—adv. Harr′owingly.—n. Chain′-harr′ow a harrow composed of rings for breaking clods of earth.—Under the harrow in distress or anxiety.
See Haro.
Checker: Walter
Examples
- I knew the nature of their course: I never had doubt how it would harrow as it went. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I have got some of you under the harrow. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- If he is violent, we shall take you away to your aunt's at Harrow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- To harrow would require as long, and to plant would take about the same time, or about forty-three years altogether. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Next to the plough among the implements for breaking, clearing and otherwise preparing the soil for the reception of seed, comes the _harrow_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A harrow comprising two ranks of oppositely curved trailing teeth is especially popular in some countries. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It's perfectly wonderful, Birkin harrowing Hell--harrowing the Pompadour--HIC! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- One day, it was the ninth of September, seemed devoted to every disaster, to every harrowing incident. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And the woman, with her serious, conscience-harrowing question tortured him on the quick. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I warn my kyind friends, then, that I am going to tell a story of harrowing villainy and complicated--but, as I trust, intensely interesting--crime. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Let us draw the curtain over this harrowing scene. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- No wonder that the attendant should interpret as phrensy the harrowing maledictions of the grief-struck old man. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Other thoughts followed, on which it was less harrowing to dwell. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- What brother-man and brother-Christian must suffer, cannot be told us, even in our secret chamber, it so harrows the soul! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A powerful steam traction engine of fifty horse power hauls across the field a planting combination of sixteen ten-inch plows, four six-foot harrows and a seeding drill in the rear. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I feel the rack pass over my body like the saws, and harrows, and axes of iron over the men of Rabbah, and of the cities of the children of Ammon! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- There were ploughs which were made heavy or light as the different soils required, and there were a variety of farm implements, such as spades, hoes, harrows and rakes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Traction engine pulling sixteen 10-inch plows, four 6-foot harrows, and a drill. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Anatolian peninsula had been ploughed and harrowed by the Persian armies; the great cities had been plundered and sacked. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Presley