Synonyms:
harrow
Meaning: a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
harrow, disk
Meaning: draw a harrow over (land)
Usage examples
Why harrow up the public bosom, or lasserate the public mind?
Next they sit on the harrow and keep a tiny flame burning on each corner of it for an hour.
"A mysterious old tiger!" thought the artist, "well worth painting. Ugly--with deep lines--looking as if the plough and the harrow had gone over his heart.
You will feel that at last you have something tangible. Now all that remains is to turn the ground over, harrow it, smooth it up nice and neat, plant your seeds, cultivate them, thin out your plants and pick the crops.
In a district of Transylvania when the ground is parched with drought, some girls strip themselves naked, and, led by an older woman, who is also naked, they steal a harrow and carry it across the fields to a brook, where they set it afloat.
I would rather be a convict in a State prison, a slave in a rice-swamp, than to pass through life under the harrow of debt. Hunger, cold, rags, hard work, contempt, suspicion, unjust reproach, are disagreeable, but debt is infinitely worse than them all.