"harrow" Definition

Definitions for the word "harrow" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. interj.
Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor;-the ancient Norman hue and cry.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To pillage; to harry; to oppress.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
Heavy frame with iron teeth dragged over ploughed land to break up clods etc. v. 1 draw a harrow over (land). 2 (usu. As harrowing adj.) Distress greatly. [old norse hervi]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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