harrow
see also: Harrow
Pronunciation
Harrow
Pronunciation
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see also: Harrow
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈhæɹəʊ/
- (America, non-Mary-marry-merry) IPA: /ˈhæɹoʊ/
- (America, Mary-marry-merry) IPA: /ˈhɛɹoʊ/
From Middle English harwe, harow, from Old English *hearwa (perhaps ultimately cognate with harvest), or from Old Norse harfr/herfi; compare Danish harve, Dutch hark.
Nounharrow (plural harrows)
- A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow.
- (military) An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
- French: herse
- German: Egge
- Italian: erpice, frangizolle
- Portuguese: ancinho, grade
- Russian: борона́
- Spanish: grada, rastra, escarificador
harrow (harrows, present participle harrowing; simple past and past participle harrowed)
- (transitive) To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.
- 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC ↗:
- When the corn was sown, I had no harrow, but was forced to go over it myself, and drag a great heavy bough of a tree over it, to scratch it, as it may be called, rather than rake or harrow it.
- (transitive) To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i]:
- It harrows me with fear and wonder.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene v], page 257 ↗, column 2:
- I could a Tale vnfold, vvhoſe lighteſt vvord / VVould harrovv vp thy ſoule, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy tvvo eyes like Starres, ſtart from their Spheres, / Thy knotty and combined locks to part, / And each particular haire to ſtand an end, / Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine: […]
(transitive) To break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex. - 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert:
- my aged muscles harrow'd up with whips
- French: herser
- German: eggen
- Italian: erpicare
- Portuguese: ancinhar
- Russian: борони́ть
- Spanish: escarificar
- German: peinigen, quälen
- Russian: трево́жить
- Spanish: atormentar, asaetear
From Middle English harrow, harrowe, haro, from Old French haro, harou, harau, harol, from Frankish *harot, *hara, from *hēr.
Interjection- (obsolete) A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:
- Harrow, the flames, which me consume (said hee) / Ne can be quencht, within my secret bowels bee.
Harrow
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /hæɹəʊ/
From Old English hearg, from Proto-Germanic *harugaz.
Proper noun- A town in northwestern Greater London.
- London borough in Greater London, England.
- A prestigious public school for boys in the town of Harrow.
From harrow.
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