harrow
harrow is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, interjection, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
- noun. To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land.
- noun. To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.
- interjection. Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor;-the ancient Norman hue and cry.
- transitive verb. To pillage; to harry; to oppress.
- noun. a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil
- verb. draw a harrow over (land)
Synonyms
Common word forms
harrows, harrowed, harrower, harrowing, harrowment
Words from these letters
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