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Harrow was a parliamentary constituency in Middlesex (now part of Greater London ). It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . The constituency was created for the 1885 general election , and abolished ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harrow \Har"row\ (h[a^]r"r[-o]), n. [OE. harowe, harwe, AS. hearge; cf. D. hark rake, G. harke, Icel. herfi harrow, Dan. harve, Sw. harf. [root]16.] An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Disc harrows consisting of gangs of concave steel discs are dragged at an angle to the line of draught. ▪ Hundreds of parishioners were working with bare hands, shovels and harrows, extending the church by burrowing out a crypt. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 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. vb. 1 To drag a harrow over; to break up ...

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Both the ashes and the shell of the burnedout building where Tom Harrow had died had been cleared away since he had driven in with Nan on Thursday to check out the smoke.

BIGMOUTH antenna of the USS Billfish came out of the sail and transmitted the remarkable, harrowing message.

Who Himself begot middler the Holy Ghost and Himself sent Himself, Agenbuyer, between Himself and others, Who, put upon by His fiends, stripped and whipped, was nailed like bat to barndoor, starved on crosstree, Who let Him bury, stood up, harrowed hell, fared into heaven and there these nineteen hundred years sitteth on the right hand of His Own Self but yet shall come in the latter day to doom the quick and dead when all the quick shall be dead already.

The Baron scoured the entirety of the vessel, from the Supercritical Harrow Tank to the Debasing Pods, and not only did the Baron not find Madeline, the Ethyls appeared to be missing, too.

Old Harrovians wrote to the papers, saying that they had been at Harrow for six years, and that the conversation was, except in a few ignoble exceptions, pure and manly, and that the general atmosphere was one of clean, healthy broadmindedness.

Lieutenant Raymond Kerman, first in his year at the Academy, a top sportsman at Harrow School, the son of wealthy, well-known North London parents, heir to the Kerman shipping line.

And from then on fact had been added to meager fact and the censorship of that single telegram had avalanched into a harrowing afternoon-long session of give-and-take, of logrolling, bullying, factions and secret votes until Ferrante and his chief had to face the sickening truth of the matter: that they must league with the English in view of a highly probable common peril.

And from then on, fact had been added to meager fact, and the censorship of that single telegram had avalanched into a harrowing afternoon-long session of give-and-take, of logrolling, bullying, factions and secret votes, until Ferrante and his chief had to face the sickening truth of the matter: that they must league with the English, in view of a highly probable common peril.

Clay soils may call for the free use of the harrow and roller used in some sort of alternation before they are sufficiently pulverized.

Peruvian guano to the acre, and after the first harrowing sows the clover seed.

After all, Harrow was a mutant, a member of the Tenebrae itself, and he looked more human than she did.

All this left so vivid an impression of the wisdom of his friend on the mind of Sextus Parker, that in spite of the harrowing fears by which he had been tormented on more than one occasion already, he allowed himself to be persuaded into certain fiscal arrangements, by which Lopez would find himself put at ease with reference to money at any rate for the next four months.

Designer are all the cogwheels that control the movements of the Harrow, and this machinery is regulated according to the inscription demanded by the sentence.

So it was that in the course of an extraordinarily short time she found herself as deeply absorbed in the image of the little dead Clara Matilda, who, on a crossing in the Harrow Road, had been knocked down and crushed by the cruellest of hansoms, as she had ever found herself in the family group made vivid by one of seven.

They were all in pairs, harnessed to harrows, rollers, and ploughs, and out of the twenty, nineteen were dark-coloured.