harrow
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Either representing unattested Old English *hearwe or *hearġe (perhaps ultimately cognate with harvest), or from Old Norse harfr/herfi[1]; compare Danish harve (“‘harrow’”), Dutch hark (“‘rake’”). Akin to Latin carpere.
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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:
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device
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to harrow (third-person singular simple present harrows, present participle harrowing, simple past and past participle harrowed)
- To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.
- 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.
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment.
- The headless horseman harrowed Ichabod Crane as he tried to reach the bridge.
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drag a harrow over
traumatise, frighten
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