Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A long, narrow, shallow trench made in the ground by a plow.
- noun A rut, groove, or narrow depression.
- noun A deep wrinkle in the skin, as on the forehead.
- intransitive verb To make long, narrow, shallow trenches in; plow.
- intransitive verb To form grooves or deep wrinkles in.
- intransitive verb To become furrowed or wrinkled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut a furrow in; make furrows in; plow.
- To make narrow channels or grooves in; mark with or as with wrinkles.
- noun A trench in the earth, especially that made by a plow.
- noun A narrow trench or channel, as in wood or metal, or in a millstone; a groove; a wrinkle.
- noun Specifically In zoology, a sulcus or wide groove, generally rounded at the bottom, and extending longitudinally on the animal or part; one of the spaces between costal or longitudinal ridges.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.
- noun Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face.
- noun a weed which grows on plowed land.
- noun to live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty.
- transitive verb To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow.
- transitive verb To mark with channels or with wrinkles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
trench cut in the soil, as whenplowed in order to plant acrop . - noun A deep
wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on someone'sforehead . - verb transitive To
make (a)groove , acut (s) in (the ground etc.). - verb transitive To
wrinkle - verb transitive To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow)
- verb cut a furrow into a columns
- noun a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
- verb make wrinkled or creased
- verb hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The furrow is then filled in, so that the seeds may be covered to the same depth as their own thickness; and the earth is slightly pressed down, and afterwards raked over.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
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Sam was hitched on the right, the so-called furrow horse, charged with walking in the soft dirt of his newly dug ditch, keeping a straight line.
The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010
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At the end of the furrow was the land that had not been claimed from the forest-forest that held so many dangers that sending him out here might just as well have been a death sentence.
The White Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1995
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Now for the manner of sowing your Pease, you shall sow them aboue furrow, that is, first plough the land vpward, then immediately sow your
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On the under surface of the vaginal process is a furrow, which is converted into a canal by the sphenoidal process of the palatine bone, for the transmission of the pharyngeal branch of the internal maxillary artery and the pharyngeal nerve from the sphenopalatine ganglion.
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The man who treads the furrow is a greater factor than nitrogen or potash.
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In the middle range, where the tongue or the larynx might be too high or too low, the furrow, which is of so much importance, is formed, in order to lead the vocalized breath first against the front of the palate beneath the nose, then slowly along the nose and behind it.
How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] Lilli Lehmann 1888
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The shrinking of the last part to become solid is further shown by the collapse of the surface of the ingot where weakest; that is, a furrow is formed on the flat surface.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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Having chosen the most important task, attack that, and when you have once laid hold of the plough, drive straight ahead, not allowing the sight of another furrow, which is not just straight, to induce you to stop midway to straighten it before you have finished the one upon which your energies should now be bent.
The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) Marion Harland 1876
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Using gravity, the furrow, which is several hundred metres long, runs over a "bridge" across the river before emptying its load into a pipe.
Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2008
bilby commented on the word furrow
A Wordnet haiku:
a long shallow trench
cut a furrow into columns
make wrinkled or creased
July 10, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word furrow
*added*
Thanks.
July 10, 2012