harrow
noun (harrows); verb (harrow, harrows, harrowed, harrowing)
Everyday
- A harrow is a heavy frame with metal spikes or teeth, pulled over ploughed ground to break up the soil and make it ready for seed. tree →
- (verb) To harrow is to go over the soil with a harrow. tree →
In the lessons
a farm tool in farm tales; in the lessons it names the kind of tool a peasant uses after the plough; in stories «a harrow» can also be a thing that causes great pain (verb: to distress someone)
Examples
- The peasant left his plough and his harrow in the field. tree →
- Dad pulled the harrow behind the tractor. tree →
- The farmer harrowed the field before sowing the seed. tree →
Note
nothing for maths
In Jewish tradition
A tool for farming, and in war a cruel iron tool used on captives. As a verb it means to break up soil.
Interpretation. Isaiah uses the farmer's careful work as a picture of God's wise and orderly ways.
Examples
- Or will he harrow the valleys after thee? (Writings JOB.39.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground? (Prophets ISA.28.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- And he brought forth the people that were therein, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. (Writings 1CH.20.3, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
nothing for maths
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «harrow» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «harrow» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
- Trees and pragmatics of «harrow» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «harrow» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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