Harrow

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.
 * 2) * 1918, Louise & Aylmer Maude, trans. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Oxford 1998, p. 153:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann 1995, p. 28:
 * Part of your job would be to learn tractor ploughing and the use of planters, harrows, and cultivators.
 * Part of your job would be to learn tractor ploughing and the use of planters, harrows, and cultivators.

Verb

 * 1) To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.
 * 2) * 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
 * When the corn was sown, I had no harrow, but was forced to go over it myself, and drag a great heavy bough of a tree over it, to scratch it, as it may be called, rather than rake or harrow it.
 * 1) To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment.
 * The headless horseman harrowed Ichabod Crane as he tried to reach the bridge.

Derived terms

 * harrowing
 * Harrowing of Hell

Interjection

 * 1)  A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc.
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
 * Harrow, the flames, which me consume (said hee) / Ne can be quencht, within my secret bowels bee.

Adverbs for Harrow
mercilessly; cruelly; superfluously; gratuitously; sadistically; grimly.

Thesaurus
afflict, agonize, ail, backset, badger, bait, bedevil, bite, bloody, burn, chafe, claw, cog, comb, convulse, crag, crucify, cultivate, culture, cut, dab, delve, devil, dig, distress, drag, dress, dub, equalize, even, excruciate, fallow, fang, fertilize, fester, flatten, force, fret, gall, give pain, gnaw, grade, grate, grease, grind, gripe, heckle, hector, hoe, hurt, impale, inflame, inflict pain, irritate, jag, kill by inches, lacerate, lancinate, lay, level, list, lubricate, macerate, martyr, martyrize, mow, mulch, needle, nip, oil, pain, peak, pecten, pester, pierce, pinch, plane, planish, plaster, plow, prick, projection, prolong the agony, prune, punish, put to torture, rack, rake, rankle, rasp, ratchet, rip, rub, savage, sawtooth, scarify, shave, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, snag, snaggle, spade, spire, sprocket, spur, stab, steeple, sting, tantalize, tease, thin, thin out, till, till the soil, tooth, torment, torture, try, tweak, twist, weed, weed out, work, wound, wring

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/h{r@U/}}
 * , {{SAMPA|/h{roU/}}

Etymology 1
Either representing unattested *hearwe or *hearġe (perhaps ultimately cognate with harvest:), or from  harfr:/herfi: ; compare Danish harve:, Dutch hark:. Akin to Latin carpo:.

Etymology 2
From haro:, harou:, of uncertain origin.

Noun

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 * : 써리다 (sseorida)
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