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harrow

[har-oh] / ˈhær oʊ /


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Track maintenance will then harrow the track to release the compactness and return it to its regular consistency for racing.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 27, 2021

Alcée rode his horse under the shelter of a side projection where the chickens had huddled and there were plows and a harrow piled up in the corner.

From Textbooks Dec. 21, 2021

In her diary entry for July 15, 1944, Anne Frank wrote words that would harrow and challenge generations not yet born: “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”

From Seattle Times Nov. 24, 2019

Called DISCOL, the simple trial involved raking the centre of a roughly 11-square-kilometre plot in the Pacific Ocean with an 8-metre-wide implement called a plough harrow.

From Nature Jul. 23, 2019

After the harrow, for the next two days came the Fitzgibbons themselves, all four of them with hoes and bags of seeds, planting lettuce, beans, spinach, potatoes, corn and mustard greens.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

Blacksmiths were actually the rocket scientists of their day, because they could make anything and fix anything - wagon wheels, plows and harrows.

From Washington Times Jan. 22, 2016

Which is another way of saying that the novel harrows the particular plot she has made her own all these years, of weakness — and why it repels.

From New York Times Nov. 2, 2015

On thousands of U.S. farms, plows and disc harrows turned back the black earth for next month's corn planting.

From Time Magazine Archive

He now owns two tractors and a combine; his barn and tool sheds are jammed with plows, harrows, seeders.

From Time Magazine Archive

Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell




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