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HARROW
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from any of various places so named in England and Scotland, as for example Harrow in northwest London (Herges in Domesday Book), Harrow Head in Nether Wasdale, Cumbria, both named from Old English hearg, hærg ‘(pagan) temple’, and Harrow near Mey, Caithness.
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English
English : origin uncertain. Possibly a variant of Harrower.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : nickname or occupational name for someone who hunted hares, or who was thought to resemble a breed of dog used in hunting hares.English and Scottish : nickname for someone thought to resemble a harrier, a kind of hawk, Middle English harrower.English and Scottish : nickname for a raider or plunderer, from an agent noun derived from Middle English herian, Old English her(g)ian ‘to harry’, ‘plunder’, ‘ravage’.
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South German
South German : topographic name for someone who lived on a corner (either a street corner, or the corner of a valley running around a mountain), from an altered form of Eck + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.Dutch and German : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements agi ‘point (of a sword)’ + heri ‘army’.South German(Swabia) : occupational name for a farmer, from an agent derivative of eggen ‘to harrow’.English : variant of Edgar 1.
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n.
A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock.
n.
To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.
n.
One who harrows.
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To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.
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To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land.
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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.
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An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
interj.
Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor;-the ancient Norman hue and cry.
n.
A European leguminous plant (Ononis arvensis) with long, tough roots.
imp. & p. p.
of Harrow
v. t.
To pillage; to harry; to oppress.
v. t.
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.
v. t.
A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
v. t.
To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.
n.
One who harries.
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An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Harrow
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A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges.
v. t.
To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass.
n.
A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy.