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Harrow v. t. (past & past part. harrowed; pres. part. harrowing)

To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land. "Will he harrow the valleys after thee?"

To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex. "My aged muscles harrowed up with whips." "I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul."

Harrow v. t. To pillage; to harry; to oppress. (Obs.) "Meaning thereby to harrow his people."

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Etymology of 'Harrowing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Harrowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... obstructed her utterance for a time. 'How can you turn upon me so when I schemed to get you here—schemed that you might win her till I found you were married. O, how can you! O!... O!' She wept; and the weeping of such a nature was as harrowing as the ...

— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy

... roots—and the furrows I drew would have brought the laughing to Dan McBride; but the soil was not so black, but where the rabbits had burrowed there was good green grass among the red scrapings. The sowing and the harrowing were the easy job after that, and I mind me how I leaned on that dyke and gazed on the first three acres won out of the hill, when the green breard was showing, as a man might gaze on his first-born son. In these night trakings in the hills I learned ...

— The McBrides - A Romance of Arran • John Sillars

... of the cut or moulded blocks, and peat as obtained by plowing and harrowing the surface of drained peat-beds—may be used to advantage in the stair grate, fig. 1, which was introduced some years ago in Austria, and is adapted exclusively for burning finely divided fuel. It consists of a series ...

— Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel • Samuel William Johnson

... by an eye-witness, pictures with terrible vividness the scenes which followed. Many cases are described with harrowing detail, and of one Blandina it is said: "From morn till eve they put her to all manner of torture, marvelling that she still lived with her body pierced through and through and torn piecemeal by so many tortures, of which a single ...

— A Short History of France • Mary Platt Parmele

... intelligence are admitted into those papers which the emperor is willing his subjects should know. The freedom of republican America is carefully excluded. The slavery which disgraces our land is ostentatiously exhibited in harrowing descriptions and appalling engravings, as a specimen of the degradation to which republican ...

— The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power • John S. C. Abbott

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