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What (who) is Harrow - definition
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Harrow (disambiguation); Harrow, England
harrow
¦ noun an implement consisting of a heavy frame set with teeth or tines which is dragged over ploughed land to break up or spread the soil.
¦ verb
1. draw a harrow over.
2. [usu. as adjective harrowing] cause distress to: a harrowing film about racism.
Derivatives
harrower noun
harrowingly adverb
Origin
ME: from ON herfi.
Harrow
·noun An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
II. Harrow ·interj Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor;-the ancient Norman hue and cry.
IV. Harrow ·noun To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land.
V. Harrow ·noun To break or tear, as with a harrow; to Wound; to Lacerate; to torment or distress; to Vex.
VI. Harrow ·noun 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.
harrow
v. a.
1.
Draw a harrow over, till with a harrow.
2.
Lacerate, tear, rend, wound, torment, torture, harass.
Examples of use of Harrow
1. Miss Braham, whose father is art director at Harrow, was stabbed to death in her home in Harrow–on–the–Hill this month.
2. Harrow school was unwilling to be drawn on the affair.
3. In March 2005 she moved away from Harrow altogether.
4. Yaa Asantewaa Centre, Chippenham Mews, off Harrow Road.
5. Wonder if Cheri had signed it? – Pete, Harrow Middlesex.