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noun

Harrow 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.

(Mil.) An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.

Bush harrow, a kind of light harrow made of bushes, for harrowing grass lands and covering seeds, or to finish the work of a toothed harrow.

Drill harrow. See under 6th Drill.

Under the harrow, subjected to actual torture with a toothed instrument, or to great affliction or oppression.

verb

Harrow v. t. (past & past part. harrowed; pres. part. harrowing)

To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land. "Will he harrow the valleys after thee?"

To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex. "My aged muscles harrowed up with whips." "I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul."

Harrow v. t. To pillage; to harry; to oppress. (Obs.) "Meaning thereby to harrow his people."

interjection

Harrow interj. Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor; the ancient Norman hue and cry. "Harrow and well away!" "Harrow! alas! here lies my fellow slain."

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Etymology of 'Harrow'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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