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Furrow   /fˈəroʊ/   Listen
noun
Furrow  n.  
1.
A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.
2.
Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age.
Furrow weed a weed which grows on plowed land.
To draw a straight furrow, to live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty.


verb
Furrow  v. t.  (past & past part. furrowed; pres. part. furrowing)  
1.
To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.
2.
To mark with channels or with wrinkles. "Thou canst help time to furrow me with age." "Fair cheeks were furrowed with hot tears."





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"Furrow" Quotes from Famous Books



... their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their ...
— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... oxen, though difficult, is nothing compared with the working of oxen. The boy can direct his plough lightly along its straight furrow, anticipating each movement of his oxen, and he can turn a corner "straight as a bug's leg;" nevertheless, he would like those persons who have a Wordsworthian idea of following the plough along ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various
... than before Is the cataract's roar, And the furrow'd wave is bright With many a pearl From the shining swirl Of the water's ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... cried, "is not this rather a phantasy of my poor fevered brain, and is it not written that in my slumbering and in my waking moments, day and night, I should ever see those two figures who have made so deep and dark a furrow ...
— The Forty-Five Guardsmen • Alexandre Dumas
... delight in it. Then, instead of the piteous and frightful figure of Death, skipping along whip in hand by the peasant's side in the field, the allegorical painter will place there a radiant angel, sowing with full hands the blessed grain in the smoking furrow. ...
— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold


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