harrow

One man rides a draft horse dragging a wooden harrow, weighted down by a boulder, to break up the soil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

After the plow comes the harrow, with its heavy creaking disks, and then the people with hoes and seeds.

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

This is a book about love as a torrent, a force of nature that overwhelms families, harrows lives and lays waste to whole towns as it thunders through.

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

And in his shop he sharpened plows and mended harrows and welded broken axles and shod horses.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck