harrow

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1. harrow - Noun

2. harrow - Verb

3. harrow - Interjection

4. Harrow - Proper noun

Meaning

An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.

An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.

To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land.

To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.

Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor;-the ancient Norman hue and cry.

To pillage; to harry; to oppress.

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The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good. Andrei Tarkovsky

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. Paul Nurse

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth-point goes The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad. Rudyard Kipling

Hitler, in one of his recent discourses, declared that the fight was between those who have been through the Adolf Hitler Schools and those who have been at Eton. Hitler has forgotten Harrow. Winston Churchill

Harrow before the cow. Myanmar Proverb

To the devil with so many masters, said the toad to the harrow. French Proverb

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