Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Help! hallo! hello! an exclamation of sudden distress, of lamentation, or of indignation or surprise: used by heralds to attract attention.
- To draw a harrow over; break or tear with a harrow: as, to
harrow land or ground. - To tear or lacerate as if by a harrow; torment; harass.
- noun An implement, usually formed of pieces of timber or bars of metal crossing one another and set with iron teeth (also called
tines ), drawn (usually by one corner) over plowed land to level it and break the clods, and to Cover Seed when sown. - noun Disturbance; cry; uproar.
- noun A barrow-like military formation; also, that assumed by flying flocks of wild geese.
- To ravage; despoil; vex: same as
harry .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.
- noun (Mil.) An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
- noun a kind of light harrow made of bushes, for harrowing grass lands and covering seeds, or to finish the work of a toothed harrow.
- noun See under 6th
Drill . - noun subjected to actual torture with a toothed instrument, or to great affliction or oppression.
- interjection Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor; -- the ancient Norman hue and cry.
- transitive verb To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed.
- transitive verb To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.
- transitive verb obsolete To pillage; to harry; to oppress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection obsolete A call for
help , or ofdistress ,alarm etc. - noun A
device consisting of a heavy framework having severaldisks orteeth in a row, which isdragged acrossploughed land tosmooth orbreak up thesoil , to removeweeds or coverseeds ; a harrowplow . - verb To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.
- verb To
traumatize ordisturb ; tofrighten ortorment .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil
- verb draw a harrow over (land)
Etymologies
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Examples
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And then the crash of high explosive bombs, bursting in harrow-tooth lines across the city.
Blinds Up In Britain 1942
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The harrow is a large bundle of brushwood, on which some one squats to weight it down.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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The harrow was a crude device, knocked together by one of the Blacks from a fork in an oak trunk.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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The harrow was a crude device, knocked together by one of the Blacks from a fork in an oak trunk.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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It was called a harrow, and it looked like the diagram on the next page.
Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling Sara Cone Bryant
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It was called a harrow, and it looked like this: --
Stories to Tell to Children Sara Cone Bryant
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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 ... ..
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It was called a harrow, and it looked like this: --
Stories to Tell to Children: Fifty-One Stories With Some Suggestions for Telling 1907
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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.
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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.
[christa päffgen] reasons to continue, reasons to pass away 2009
renumeratedfrog commented on the word harrow
Verb: to rob of goods by force, especially in time of war
"Russian soldiers went through the Georgian village and left it utterly destroyed and harrowed."
August 19, 2008