 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
harrow
noun: a cultivator that pulverizes or smoothes the soil
verb: draw a harrow over (land) [syn: {disk}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Harrow \Har"row\ (h[a^]r"r[-o]), noun [OE. harowe, harwe, AS.
hearge; cf. D. hark rake, G. harke, Icel. herfi harrow, Dan.
harve, Sw. harf. [root]16.]
1. 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.
2. (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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Harrow \Har"row\, interj. [OF. harau, haro; fr. OHG. hara, hera,
herot, or fr. OS. herod hither, akin to E. here.]
Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor;
-- the ancient Norman hue and cry. ''Harrow and well away!''
--Spenser.
Harrow! alas! here lies my fellow slain. --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Harrow \Har"row\, verb (used with an object) [See {Harry}.]
To pillage; to harry; to oppress. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Meaning thereby to harrow his people. --Bacon
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Harrow \Har"row\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Harrowed}
(h[a^]r"r[-o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Harrowing}.] [OE. harowen,
harwen; cf. Dan. harve. See {Harrow}, noun]
1. 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? --Job xxxix.
10.
2. 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. --Rowe.
I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul. --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "harrow":
afflict, agonize, ail, backset, badger, bait, bedevil, bite,
bloody, burn, chafe, claw, cog, comb, convulse, crag, crucify,
cultivate, culture, cut, dab, delve, devil, dig, distress, drag,
dress, dub, equalize, even, excruciate, fallow, fang, fertilize,
fester, flatten, force, fret, gall, give pain, gnaw, grade, grate,
grease, grind, gripe, heckle, hector, hoe, hurt, impale, inflame,
inflict pain, irritate, jag, kill by inches, lacerate, lancinate,
lay, level, list, lubricate, macerate, martyr, martyrize, mow,
mulch, needle, nip, oil, pain, peak, pecten, pester, pierce, pinch,
plane, planish, plaster, plow, prick, projection,
prolong the agony, prune, punish, put to torture, rack, rake,
rankle, rasp, ratchet, rip, rub, savage, sawtooth, scarify, shave,
smooth, smooth down, smooth out, snag, snaggle, spade, spire,
sprocket, spur, stab, steeple, sting, tantalize, tease, thin,
thin out, till, till the soil, tooth, torment, torture, try, tweak,
twist, weed, weed out, work, wound, wring
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Harrow
(Heb. harits), a tribulum or sharp threshing sledge; a frame
armed on the under side with rollers or sharp spikes (2 Sam.
12:31; 1 Chr. 20:3).
Heb. verb _sadad_, to harrow a field, break its clods (Job
39:10; Isa. 28:4; Hos.
10: 11). Its form is unknown. It may have
resembled the instrument still in use in Egypt.
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