Definitions for harrows

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harrows har·row

Spelling: [har-oh]

IPA: /ˈhær oʊ/

Harrows is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in harrows (ahorrsw).

Definitions for harrows

noun

1. an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
2. a borough of Greater London, in SE England.
3. a boarding school for boys, founded in 1571 at Harrow-on-the-Hill, an urban district near London, England.

verb (used with object)

1. to draw a harrow over (land).
2. to disturb keenly or painfully; distress the mind, feelings, etc., of.
3. to ravish; violate; despoil.
4. harry (def 2).
5. (of Christ) to descend into (hell) to free the righteous held captive.

verb (used without object)

1. to become broken up by harrowing, as soil.

Origin of harrows

1250-1300; Middle English harwe; akin to Old Norse herfi harrow, Dutch hark rake, Greek krṓpion sickle

Examples for harrows

Note 18: Mr. Robinson was educated at harrow, and was a contemporary of Mr. Sheridan.

Irpex, a harrow, so called from a fancied resemblance of its teeth to the teeth of a harrow.

He was educated at harrow and afterwards at Trinity College.

And watching these two programs side by side makes one feel infinitely happier to have been expelled from Eton than from harrow.

Aylward, Johnston, let your men form a harrow on either side of the ridge.

He wrote all those poems about his schoolboy days at harrow.

Keeper of the field, and played against harrow the same year.

They harrow the refined feelings of the faithful missionary.

Bo Guagua went to two private boarding schools, Papplewick and harrow, before going on to study at Balliol College, Oxford.

A harrow and a plough live there; they're sure to be at home on a day like this.