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Furrow

//ˈfʌɹoʊ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
Any trench, channel, or groove; often found on wood or metal.; A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
"Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field."
2
a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow) wordnet
3
Any trench, channel, or groove; often found on wood or metal.; A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
"When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead."
4
a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface wordnet

Verb

1
To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.). transitive
"Cart wheels can furrow roads."
2
hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove wordnet
3
To wrinkle. transitive
4
cut a furrow into a column wordnet
5
To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc. transitive
"As she pored over the company's bewildering tax documents, she furrowed her brows, wrinkled her nose, and began to frown her befuddlement."

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6
make wrinkled or creased wordnet
7
to become furrowed intransitive
"If you were bold enough to ask Antonin Scalia questions, you had to be precise. Otherwise the bushy black brows would furrow, the chin would crumple and the pudgy, puckish body would start to rock, eager to get at you."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar̃šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit पर्शान (párśāna, “chasm”).

Etymology 2

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