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noun

Harrow n.

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.

(Mil.) An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.

Bush harrow, a kind of light harrow made of bushes, for harrowing grass lands and covering seeds, or to finish the work of a toothed harrow.

Drill harrow. See under 6th Drill.

Under the harrow, subjected to actual torture with a toothed instrument, or to great affliction or oppression.

verb

Harrow v. t. (past & past part. harrowed; pres. part. harrowing)

To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land. "Will he harrow the valleys after thee?"

To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex. "My aged muscles harrowed up with whips." "I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul."

Harrow v. t. To pillage; to harry; to oppress. (Obs.) "Meaning thereby to harrow his people."

interjection

Harrow interj. Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor; the ancient Norman hue and cry. "Harrow and well away!" "Harrow! alas! here lies my fellow slain."

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Etymology of 'Harrow'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Harrow" Quotes from Famous Books

... well known that in private life the doctor was in the habit of expressing the greatest contempt for the Gaelic League, and that he could not, if his life depended on it, have translated even Mr. O'Reilly's advertisements; but his speech was greeted with tumultuous cheers. He proceeded to harrow the feelings of his audience by describing what he had heard at the railway-station one evening while waiting for the train. As he paced the platform his attention was attracted by the sound of a piano in the station-master's house. ...

— Hyacinth - 1906 • George A. Birmingham

... Ovid's "Metamorphoses," translated by several hands; which he recommended by a preface, written with more ostentation than ability; his notions are half-formed, and his materials immethodically confused. This was his last work. He died January 18th, 1717-18, and was buried at Harrow-on-the-Hill. ...

— Lives of the Poets: Gay, Thomson, Young, and Others • Samuel Johnson

... Douglas struggled with his own emotion, and repeated all the information he had obtained. Guardedly as he spoke, evidently as he endeavored to prepare the mind of Agnes, and thus soften its woe, his tale was yet such as to harrow up the hearts of all his hearers, how much more the frail and gentle being to whom it more immediately related; yet she stood calm, pale, indeed, and quivering, but with a desperate effort conquering the weakness of her nature, and bearing that deep woe as the daughter ...

— The Days of Bruce Vol 1 - A Story from Scottish History • Grace Aguilar

... your own life and do what work you can in the world. There, I've said it, and of course you will go right on. I know you. And maybe I am all wrong. When I see the story I may take the other side and urge you to go on, even if you are as poor as a church-mouse, and have to be under the harrow ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... enormous masses had first been hurled to their present position—outposts of the eternal granite, though themselves widely removed from the central waste of the Moor. This particular and gigantic monument of the past stands with its feet in land long cultivated. Plough and harrow yearly skirt the Pixies' Parlour; it rises to-day above yellow corn, to-morrow amid ripening roots; it crowns the succeeding generations of man's industry, and watches a ceaseless cycle of human ...

— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts

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