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Harrow   /hˈæroʊ/   Listen
Harrow

noun
1.
A cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil.
verb
(past & past part. harrowed; pres. part. harrowing)
1.
Draw a harrow over (land).  Synonym: disk.



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"Harrow" Quotes from Famous Books



... with uplifted face. He was like one suddenly wakened in a new world, where nothing was familiar. Not a tree or shrub was in sight. Not a mark of plough or harrow—everything was wild, and to him mystical and glorious. His eyes were like those of a man who sees a world at ...
— The Moccasin Ranch - A Story of Dakota • Hamlin Garland

... a heavy sod in the part of the field where these tests were to be made. This sod was torn up with a springtooth harrow (weed hog) about March 15th and the fertilizer was applied ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 • Various

... after my encounter in the ferns, I was sitting upon a harrow at the edge of the gravelly field that slopes to the swale, when a large black-snake glided swiftly across the lane and disappeared in the grass beyond. It had been gone perhaps a minute, when I heard another stir behind me, and turning, saw high above the weeds and dewberry-vines the neck and ...
— Roof and Meadow • Dallas Lore Sharp

... harrow knows Everywhere the tooth mark goes; The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment ...
— In Times Like These • Nellie L. McClung

... nearer, at a corner of an upland field. Wind-worn and lichen-stained it stood, situated not more than two hundred yards from the spot on which Barron's picture was to be painted. A pathway to outlying farms cut the fields hard by the byre, and about it lay implements of husbandry—a chain harrow and a rusty plow. Black, tar-pitched double doors gave entrance to the shed, and light entered from a solitary window now roughly nailed up from the outside with boards. A padlock fastened the door, but, by wrenching down the covering ...
— Lying Prophets • Eden Phillpotts


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