Harrow

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English

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Harrow

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈhaɹəʊ/, SAMPA: /h{r@U/
• (US) IPA: /ˈhæɹoʊ/, SAMPA: /h{roU/
• Rhymes: -ærəʊ

Etymology 1

Either representing unattested Old English *hearwe or *hearġe (perhaps ultimately cognate with harvest), or from Old Norse harfr/herfi; compare Danish harve (“‘harrow’”), Dutch hark (“‘rake’”). Akin to Latin carpere.

Noun

Singular Harrow

Plural {{{1}}}

Harrow ({{{1}}})

1. 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.

Translations

device

Albanian: lesë f. Armenian: տափան hy(hy) (tap’an) Croatian: drljača f. Czech: brány cs(cs) f. pl. Danish: harve da(da) c. Dutch: eg nl(nl) c., egge nl(nl) f. Finnish: äes fi(fi), hara fi(fi), karhi fi(fi) French: herse fr(fr) f. German: Egge de(de) f. Hungarian: borona hu(hu) Italian: erpice it(it) f.

Korean: 써레 (sseore) Lithuanian: akėčios lt(lt) Polish: brona pl(pl) f. Romanian: grapă ro(ro) f. Russian: борона́ ru(ru) (boroná) f. Scottish Gaelic: cliath gd(gd) f. Slovak: brána sk(sk) f. Slovene: brana sl(sl) f. Spanish: grada es(es) f., rastro es(es) m. Swedish: harv sv(sv) c. Thai: คราด (krâat)

Verb

Infinitive to Harrow

Third person singular -

Simple past -

Past participle -

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to Harrow (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past and past participle -)

1. To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.
   • 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.

2. To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment.

   The headless horseman harrowed Ichabod Crane as he tried to reach the bridge.

Derived terms

• harrowing
• Harrowing of Hell

Translations

drag a harrow over

Dutch: eggen nl(nl) Finnish: äestää fi(fi)

Russian: боронить ru(ru) (boronít') (impf.) Scottish Gaelic: cliath gd(gd)

traumatise, frighten

Dutch: doen nl(nl) schrikken nl(nl), angst nl(nl) aanjagen nl(nl) Finnish: pelotella fi(fi)

German: peinigen de(de), quälen de(de) Korean: 써리다 (sseorida)

Etymology 2

From Old French haro, harou, of uncertain origin.

Interjection

Harrow

1. (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.

References

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