Definizione monolingua

harrow

harrow (third-person singular simple present harrows, present participle harrowing, simple past and past participle harrowed)

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.

harrow (plural harrows)

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.

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:

     “It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isnt so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.”

   • 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.

Definizione dizionario harrow

	erpice
	device

erpicare

lacerare

ossessionare

perseguire

perseguitare

straziare

tormentare

érpice

Altri significati:

(obsolete) A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc.

To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment.

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

drag a harrow over

traumatise, frighten

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.