See|Harrow
English
wikipedia|Harrow (tool)
Etymology
Apparently representing unattested Old English *hearwe or *hearġe (perhaps ultimately cognate with harvest); compare Dutch hark �rake�, Danish harv �harrow�.

Pronunciation
(UK) IPA|/�hær��/, SAMPA|/h{r@U/
(US) IPA|/�hæro�/, SAMPA|/h{roU/
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ær��|-ær��

Noun
en-noun

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: 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. � Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 153)

Translations

Albanian: lesë f
Croatian: drlja�a f
Czech: brana f
Danish: harve c
Dutch: eg, egge f
Finnish: äes, hara
French: herse f
German: Egge f, Harke f
Hungarian: borona
Italian: erpice f
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Korean: �� (sseore)
Lithuanian: ak��ios
Romanian: grap� f
Russian: бо�она|бо�она� (boroná) f
Slovak: brána f
Slovene: brana f
Spanish: grada f, rastro m
Swedish: harv c
Thai: Thai|�รา� (krâat)

Verb
en-verb

1. To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.
2. To traumatize or disturb; to subject to a harrowing experience; to frighten or torment.

#:The headless horseman harrowed Ichabod Crane as he tried to reach the bridge.

Derived terms
harrowing
Harrowing of Hell

Translations
trans-top|traumatise, frighten
German: peinigen, quälen
trans-mid
Korean: �리� (sseorida)
Russian: бо�они�� (boronít')
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