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harrow
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?hæ???/
- (US, Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA(key): /?hæ?o?/
- (US, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /?h??o?/
- (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
- Rhymes: -æ???
Etymology 1
From Middle English harow, harowe, haru, harwe, from Old English *hearwe or *hearge (perhaps ultimately cognate with harvest), or from Old Norse harfr/herfi; compare Danish harve (“harrow”), Dutch hark (“rake”). Akin to Latin carpere.
Noun
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:
- (military) An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
Translations
See also
- spring-tooth harrow
Verb
harrow (third-person singular simple present harrows, present participle harrowing, simple past and past participle harrowed)
- (transitive) To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.
- Will he harrow the valleys after thee?
- 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.
- (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.
- 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert
- my aged muscles harrow'd up with whips
- 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert
Derived terms
- harrowing
- harrowing of hell
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English harrow, harrowe, haro, from Old French haro, harou, harau, harol, from Frankish *harot, *hara (“here; hither”), akin to Old Saxon herod, Old High German herot, Middle Dutch hare.
Interjection
harrow
- (obsolete) A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
- Harrow, the flames, which me consume (said hee) / Ne can be quencht, within my secret bowels bee.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
References
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ridges
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?j??z, IPA(key): /???d???z/
- Rhymes: -?d??z
- Hyphenation: ridges
Noun
ridges
- plural of ridge
Anagrams
- derigs, dirges, grides, redigs
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