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Harrow
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- 1 A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc. obsolete
"Harrow, the flames, which me consume (said hee) / Ne can be quencht, within my secret bowels bee."
- 1 A town in northwestern Greater London, England, historically in the county of Middlesex.
- 2 A surname originating as an occupation for a harrower.
- 3 A London borough of Greater London, England.
- 4 A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians and the Shire of West Wimmera, south western Victoria, Australia.
- 5 A prestigious public school for boys, in the town of Harrow.
- 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.
"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."
- 2 a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil wordnet
- 3 An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
- 1 To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow. transitive
"Will he harrow the valleys after thee?"
- 2 draw a harrow over (land) wordnet
- 3 To traumatize or disturb; to torment, distress or vex. transitive
"It harrows me with fear and wonder."
- 4 To break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate. transitive
"my aged muscles harrow'd up with whips"
Etymology
From Middle English harwe, harow, from Old English *hearwa (perhaps ultimately cognate with harvest), or from Old Norse harfr/herfi; compare Danish harve (“harrow”), Dutch hark (“rake”). Akin to Latin carpere. According to the OED, the verb senses are partly derived from the noun sense, partly from a by-form of the verb harry, itself from Old English hergian.
From Middle English harwe, harow, from Old English *hearwa (perhaps ultimately cognate with harvest), or from Old Norse harfr/herfi; compare Danish harve (“harrow”), Dutch hark (“rake”). Akin to Latin carpere. According to the OED, the verb senses are partly derived from the noun sense, partly from a by-form of the verb harry, itself from Old English hergian.
From Middle English harrow, harrowe, haro, from Old French haro, harou, harau, harol, from Frankish *harot, *hara (“here; hither”), from *hēr. Akin to Old Saxon herod, Old High German herot, Middle Dutch hare.
From Old English hearg (“altar; grove, temple”), from Proto-Germanic *harugaz.
From harrow.
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