harrow
/ˈhærəʊ/ (bre, ipa) · [hˈæro] /ˈhærəʊ/ (ame, ipa) · [hˈæro] /ˈher-(ˌ)ō ˈha-(ˌ)rō/ (ame, mw) · /ˈhær.əʊ/ (bre, ipa) · [hˈæro] /ˈher.oʊ/ (ame, ipa)
harrow — noun
- harrowsingular
- harrowsplural
1. a heavy farming frame fitted with metal teeth or discs that a tractor drags acro
a heavy farming frame fitted with metal teeth or discs that a tractor drags across a ploughed field to break the lumps of soil and leave it smooth enough for sowing seeds.
Karim hitched the old harrow to his tractor before the morning sun got too hot.
hitched a/the harrow to + tractor
The disc harrow in Esteban's barn had three broken teeth and badly needed repair.
compound noun: disc harrow
Madison watched her grandfather guide the harrow slowly across the long wheat field.
After two weeks of rain, the heavy harrow sank deep into the muddy ground.
Camille bought a small second-hand harrow at the farm sale near her village.
- cultivator
a broader term for any tool that loosens soil, often with several rows of teeth or blades
- tiller
usually a smaller, motor-driven machine for breaking soil in gardens; harrows are tractor-pulled and field-scale
文法句型
a/the harrow
with a harrow
用法筆記
Subject is usually a farmer; the harrow itself rarely appears as the grammatical subject. Often modified by the tooth type: disc harrow, spike harrow, spring-tooth harrow.
常見錯誤
harrow — verb
- harrowpresent simple I / you / we / they
- harrows3rd person singular
- harrowing-ing form
- harrowedpast simple
1. to pull a toothed farming frame across a ploughed field so that the lumps of ear
to pull a toothed farming frame across a ploughed field so that the lumps of earth break apart and the surface becomes smooth enough for planting.
Karim harrowed the south field early on Saturday before the spring sowing began.
harrow + field/ground
After ploughing, the workers harrowed the heavy clay soil three times to break the clods.
harrow + soil (after ploughing)
Ravindra taught his nephew how to harrow a wet field without damaging the tractor.
Nora harrowed her small barley plot twice before scattering the new seed.
The land had been ploughed but not yet harrowed when the heavy rain arrived.
文法句型
harrow [a field/the soil/the ground]
用法筆記
Subject is typically a farmer or farm worker. Object is usually the land itself (the field, the soil, the ground). Almost always follows ploughing in the agricultural sequence; if you mention both, ploughing comes first.
常見錯誤
2. (of an experience or memory) to cause somebody deep and lasting emotional pain —
(of an experience or memory) to cause somebody deep and lasting emotional pain — for example, the images from a war zone harrowing a journalist for years afterwards.
The images from the refugee camp harrowed Tendai for months after she returned home.
something + harrow + person (subject is the distressing thing)
Élise was harrowed by the doctor's calm description of her brother's final days.
passive: be harrowed by + something
The witness statements harrowed every member of the jury during the long trial.
Lien said the old photographs still harrowed her grandmother more than fifty years later.
Ilan found that the novel's last chapter harrowed him in a way nothing else had.
- torment
to cause prolonged mental suffering; slightly more active and less formal than harrow
- haunt
of memories or images, to keep returning and disturbing; focuses on the repetition rather than the depth of pain
- distress
broader and milder; covers any level of upset, while harrow implies deep, lasting pain
- comfort
to ease somebody's pain or sorrow — the opposite emotional effect
文法句型
something harrows somebody
be harrowed by something
用法筆記
Formal and literary; far less common than the adjective 'harrowing'. Subject is the painful event, image, or memory; object is the person affected. Frequently used in the passive ('was harrowed by…'). Distinct from sense 1 (working soil) — sense 2 is metaphorical.