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/
harrow (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.
- 1918, Louise & Aylmer Maude, trans. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Oxford 1998, p. 153:
- He sent for the carpenter, who was under contract to be with the threshing-machine, but it turned out that he was mending the harrows, which should have been mended the week before Lent.
- 1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann 1995, p. 28:
- Part of your job would be to learn tractor ploughing and the use of planters, harrows, and cultivators.
- 1918, Louise & Aylmer Maude, trans. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Oxford 1998, p. 153:
- (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; past and past participle harrowed)
- (transitive) To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.
- Bible, Job xxxix. 10
- Will he harrow the valleys after thee?
- 1719 Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- 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.
- Bible, Job xxxix. 10
- (transitive) To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment.
- (transitive) To break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.
- my aged muscles harrowed up with whips
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene v]:
- I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul.
- French: herser
- German: eggen
- Italian: erpicare
- Portuguese: ancinhar
- Russian: борони́ть
- Spanish: escarificar
- (obsolete) A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
- Harrow, the flames, which me consume (said hee) / Ne can be quencht, within my secret bowels bee.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
Harrow
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /hæɹəʊ/
- A town in northwestern Greater London.
- London borough in Greater London, England.
- A prestigious public school for boys in the town of Harrow.
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