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/ˈhæɹəʊ/ · 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..
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.
“It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.”
Part of your job would be to learn tractor ploughing and the use of planters, harrows, and cultivators.
Will he harrow the valleys after thee?
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.
It harrows me with fear and wonder.
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The headless horseman harrowed Ichabod Crane as he tried to reach the bridge.
Use harrow when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Harrow means 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..
Common synonyms include anguish, distress, trouble, afflict.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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