harrow
IPA: hˈæroʊ
noun
- 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.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "harrow" in Sentences
- The farmer is harrowing a field.
- The stories are harrowing and cruel.
- The world needed brushing, not harrowing.
- This harrowing tale is prison writing in the raw.
- It was called a harrow, and it looked like this: --
- The apartment search, three months long, was harrowing.
- This harrowing musical premiered in the US in October 2006.
- The story of the harrowing was popular during the Middle Ages.
- The experience was harrowing and haunted Kandegas ever afterward.
- It was but one of the harrowing experiences that they encountered.
- Harrow College is the largest college in the London Borough of Harrow.
- 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.