harrow
noun
an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
harrows
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pluralof harrow.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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 is beautiful, and he harrows the heart.
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
