Noun: harrow
| Singular | harrow |
| Plural | harrows |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1918, Louise & Aylmer Maude, Anna Karenina, Oxford, translation of original by Leo Tolstoy, published 1998, page 153:]
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“It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.” [1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:]
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Part of your job would be to learn tractor ploughing and the use of planters, harrows, and cultivators. [1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann, published 1995, page 28:]
Nouns inflected like harrow
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English harwe, harow, from Old English *hearwa (perhaps ultimately cognate with harvest), or from Old Norse harfr/herfi; compare Danish harve (“harrow”), Dutch hark (“rake”). Akin to Latin carpere. According to the OED, the verb senses are partly derived from the noun sense, partly from a by-form of the verb harry, itself from Old English hergian. See: Middle English Nouns '
harwe', Old English Nouns '
*hearwa', Old Norse Nouns '
harfr', Danish Nouns '
harve', Dutch Nouns '
hark', Old English Nouns '
hergian'.
Verbs referencing "harrow"
French Nouns
haro, French Nouns
herse, Zulu Nouns
ihhala.