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To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment

The headless horseman harrowed Ichabod Crane as he tried to reach the bridge.

A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow

Part of your job would be to learn tractor ploughing and the use of planters, harrows, and cultivators.

To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow

When the corn was sown, I had no harrow, but was forced to go over it myself, and drag a great heavy bough of a tree over it, to scratch it, as it may be called, rather than rake or harrow it.

A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc

Harrow, the flames, which me consume (said hee) / Ne can be quencht, within my secret bowels bee.

{v} to break clods with a harrow, tear up, strip, lay waste, ravage, harass, disturb
{n} an instrument used in husbandry
To traumatize or disturb; to subject to a harrowing experience; to frighten or torment
a cultivator that pulverizes or smoothes the soil draw a harrow over (land)
An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried
To break up clods of earth on heavy ground
a cultivator that pulverizes or smoothes the soil
To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex
Animal drawn farming implement used to stir, pulverize, level, and weed the soil The typical harrow was a triangular frame covering four to six feet of ground with iron or wood teeth set to project 6 to 7 inches The earliest harrows were supplemented by shovel plows and hoes
draw a harrow over (land)
To pillage; to harry; to oppress
Agricultural implement with teeth drawn over plowed land to break clods of earth
Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor; the ancient Norman hue and cry
A harrow is a piece of farm equipment consisting of a row of blades fixed to a heavy frame. When it is pulled over ploughed land, the blades break up large lumps of soil. a famous British public school (=expensive private school) for boys, in northwest London. Men who have been educated at Harrow are known as Old Harrovians. Eton. a farming machine with sharp metal blades, used to break up the earth before planting crops (herfi)
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
To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land
a farm instrument consisting of a heavy frame with teeth or upright disks, used to break up and even off plowed ground
{i} agricultural tool with spikes or disks for breaking up and leveling plowed ground earth
Till, cultivate, rake, or break soil into clods Also refers to a farm implement that is used to harrow
{f} break up and level plowed ground by means of a harrow; bother, harass
a farming equipment that used to break up clods with iron teeth
An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth
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