Furrowing

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A furrowed pattern.

    "On his bleached worn face are ploughed the furrowings of one hundred and twenty years."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of furrow form-of, gerund, participle, present

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cultivationculturedressinglistingthinningworking

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"We mark the dazzling meteor in its flight / glide o'er the roof, till, vanished from our eyes, / it hides in Ida's forest, shining bright / and furrowing out a pathway through the skies, / and round us far and wide the sulphurous fumes arise."

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