Har|row

Har|row
har|row1 «HAR oh», noun, verb.
–n.
a heavy frame with iron teeth or upright disks. Harrows are used by farmers to break up plowed ground into finer pieces or to cover seed with earth. »

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth-point goes (Rudyard Kipling).

–v.t.
1. to draw a harrow over (land): »

to harrow a field after planting.

2. to hurt; wound: »

Thorns harrowed the flanks of the horse.

SYNONYM(S): lacerate.
3. Figurative. to arouse uncomfortable feelings in; distress; torment: »

He harrowed us with a tale of ghosts. He was harrowed with grief and anxiety when he saw that his house was on fire.

 SYNONYM(S): vex.
–v.i.
(of land) to be gone over with a harrow.
╂[Middle English harwe. Compare Old Icelandic herfi.]
–har´row|er, noun.
har|row2 «HAR oh», transitive verb.
Archaic. to harry.
╂[variant of harry]
Har|row «HAR oh», noun.
an old and famous boarding school for boys in Harrow, England, a borough of London, founded in 1571.

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