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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

Until 10 years ago, each autumn the brothers would laboriously turn over lifeless slabs of clay, which needed to be pulverised with a power harrow before sowing could begin.

From The Guardian Feb. 25, 2020

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

And when the plowing was done and the worms had all disappeared, either eaten or safely underground, Mr. Fitzgibbon came back with the harrow, breaking down the furrows, and turned them all up again.

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

Around the track slowly toured a curious contraption on wheels followed by harrows and a screen.

From Time Magazine Archive

It lacks tractors, plows, harrows to till the rich valleys and lowlands.

From Time Magazine Archive

In some tellings it was harrows, but in others it was a rock.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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