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# harrow

«harrow» in Mova's school dictionary: **a heavy frame with metal spikes or teeth, pulled over…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (harrows); verb (harrow, harrows, harrowed, harrowing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A harrow is a heavy frame with metal spikes or teeth, pulled over ploughed ground to break up the soil and make it ready for seed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harrow/#m1)

2) (verb) To harrow is to go over the soil with a harrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harrow/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a farm tool in farm tales; in the lessons it names the kind of tool a peasant uses after the plough; in stories «a harrow» can also be a thing that causes great pain (verb: to distress someone)

### examples

- The peasant left his plough and his harrow in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harrow/#x1)
- Dad pulled the harrow behind the tractor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harrow/#x2)
- The farmer harrowed the field before sowing the seed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harrow/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.584/)
- [Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1067/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «harrow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harrow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.