harrow

IPA: hˈæroʊ

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.
A town in northwestern Greater London, England.
A London borough of Greater London, England.
A prestigious public school for boys in the town of Harrow.
A surname originating as an occupation for a harrower.

(transitive) To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.
(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.

Examples of "harrow" in Sentences

It was called a harrow, and it looked like this: --
It was called a harrow, and it looked like the diagram on the next page.
The harrow is a large bundle of brushwood, on which some one squats to weight it down.
And then the crash of high explosive bombs, bursting in harrow-tooth lines across the city.
The harrow was a crude device, knocked together by one of the Blacks from a fork in an oak trunk.
In the morning, after his breakfast, he came to me, and without giving me any breakfast, tied me to a large heavy harrow, which is usually drawn by a horse, and made me drag it to the cotton field for the horse to use in the field.
In the morning after his breakfast he came to me, and without giving me any thing to eat or drink, tied me to a large heavy harrow, which is usually drawn by a horse, and made me drag it to the cotton-field for the horse to use in the field ... ..
I once rented a house with that, and a lot more from the mid to late sixties on the record shelves; a couscoussier in the kitchen; a Moroccan threshing sledge, which I've also seen described as a 'harrow', and a half skeleton in a nicely made wooden box, with an address opposite the Br*tish Museum stamped on the lid, in the sitting room.