- 1耙（農具，如釘齒耙、圓盤耙）；當動詞可說耙地
A harrow is a farm machine with sharp metal teeth or discs, pulled over a field to break up the earth after ploughing, smash lumps of soil, pull up weeds, and make the ground fine enough to plant. Farmers also use it as a verb: they harrow a field when they do this job. Though actually, the same spelling has a second, more verb: to harrow someone is to distress them badly, as if their feelings were being torn up the way the tool tears the ground. On a farm, harrow still means the soil machine. Do not mix it up with Harrow (capital H), a place in London and a famous school — that is a name, not the tool.
組成From Middle English harwe / harow, from Old English *hearwa or from Old Norse harfr / herfi (compare Danish harve “harrow”, Dutch hark “rake”). Distantly akin to Latin carpere, “to pluck”. The farm verb comes from the tool. The OED says the “upset someone” verb is partly from the tool and partly a by-form of harry, “to raid and attack”. A link with harvest is only a perhaps; do not treat it as sure.
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Harrowname詞源 1/ˈhæɹəʊ/
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A town in northwestern Greater London, England, historically in the county of Middlesex.
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A London borough of Greater London, England.
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A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians and the Shire of West Wimmera, south western Victoria, Australia.
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A prestigious public school for boys, in the town of Harrow.
Harrowname詞源 2/ˈhæɹəʊ/
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A surname originating as an occupation for a harrower.
harrownoun詞源 1/ˈhæɹəʊ/
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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.
- He sent for the carpenter, who was under contract to be with the threshing-machine, but it turned out that he was mending the harrows, which should have been mended the week before Lent.
- “It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.”
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governmentmilitarypoliticsAn obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
harrowverb詞源 1/ˈhæɹəʊ/
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To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.
- Will he harrow the valleys after thee?
- 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.
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To traumatize or disturb; to torment, distress or vex.
- It harrows me with fear and wonder.
- I could a Tale vnfold, vvhoſe lighteſt vvord / VVould harrovv vp thy ſoule, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy tvvo eyes like Starres, ſtart from their Spheres, / Thy knotty and combined locks to part, / And each particular haire to ſtand an end, / Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine: […]
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To break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate.
- my aged muscles harrow'd up with whips
harrowintj詞源 2/ˈhæɹəʊ/
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obsoleteA 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.
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