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 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

His poems rely heavily on visual impressions, as in this look at the scenery surrounding a state farm: "The horses, inflated casks/ of ribs trapped between shafts,/ snap at the rusted harrows/ with gnashing profiles."

From Time Magazine Archive

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 would spend the nights walking around the room thinking aloud, searching for a way to apply the principles of the pendulum to oxcarts, to harrows, to everything that was useful when put into motion.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez