Crossword clues for furrow
furrow
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Furrow \Fur"row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Furrowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Furrowing.] [From Furrow, n.; cf. AS. fyrian.]
To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.
--Shak.-
To mark with channels or with wrinkles.
Thou canst help time to furrow me with age.
--Shak.Fair cheeks were furrowed with hot tears.
--Byron.
Furrow \Fur"row\, n. [OE. forow, forgh, furgh, AS. furh; akin to D. voor, OHG. furuh, G. furche, Dan. fure, Sw. f?ra, Icel. for drain, L. porca ridge between two furrows.]
A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.
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Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age.
Farrow weed a weed which grows on plowed land.
--Shak.To draw a straight furrow, to live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty.
--Lowell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Middle English furwe, forowe, forgh, furch, from Old English furh "furrow, trench in the earth made by a plow," from Proto-Germanic *furkh- (cognates: Old Frisian furch "furrow;" Middle Dutch vore, Dutch voor; German Furche "furrow;" Old Norse for "furrow, drainage ditch"), from PIE *perk- (2) "to dig, tear out" (cognates: Latin porca "ridge between two furrows," Old Irish -rech, Welsh rhych "furrow"). General meaning "narrow trench or channel" is from early 14c. In reference to a deep wrinkle on the face, by 1580s.
early 15c., "to plow, make furrows in," from furrow (n.). Meaning "to make wrinkles in one's face, brow, etc." is from 1590s. Old English had furian (v.). Related: Furrowed; furrowing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop. 2 Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal. 3 A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc.). 2 (context transitive English) To wrinkle 3 (context transitive English) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc.
WordNet
n. a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow)
a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" [syn: wrinkle, crease, crinkle, seam, line]
v. hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil" [syn: rut, groove]
make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" [syn: wrinkle, crease]
Wikipedia
A furrow is a line cut in soil when ploughed in order to plant a crop.
Furrow may also refer to:
- Buford O. Furrow, Jr. (born 1961), American neo-Nazi
- The Furrow, an Irish Roman Catholic theological periodical
- Cleavage furrow, cells; Furrow may refer to the gaps on the sides of the cells during cell division, during telophase.
- Furrow, an elongated aperture on the surface of pollen, which can be used to identify pollen species. (See pollen structure)
- Furrows (film), a 1951 Spanish film
Usage examples of "furrow".
He read another story in the sand, and one spot of reddish color--blood--on the slender white stalk of arrowweed, a heavy furrow, and then a line of demarcation through the green to the river--these added a sinister nature to the abduction of Roseta Uvalde.
Where Bart was fair, tall and built like the flexible ashflower tree, Dyfid was short, dark and shaped like an aged burlpine, knotted and scrawny, and furrowed with scars.
Lurt, running her finger along the furrow between her own prominent browridge and forehead.
His brows furrowed in adultlike consternation as he tried to recall an admonishment from his father on the subject of lying.
When there is a large lot of such cabbages the most economical way to plant them will be in furrows made by the plough.
For a moment Carmen gazed out at the waters of the Dead Sea, her forehead furrowed in thought.
She reached back into the sack and pulled out another handful of cottonseed, then started along the furrow, dropping them into the dirt.
Boulders, rock crevasses, great furrows where continental drift dragged entire landmasses over the ocean floor, larger gaps where tectonic-plate activity opened up the bottom of the ocean and spewed forth lava.
Each disklike hand bore three curved metal claws, a garden rake large enough to rip a furrow down the side of a battleship.
Released from their crates, the dogs raced up the snow-covered slope, the German Shepherds plowing through the snow leaving a deep furrow, and the Dobermans leaping above it in giant graceful bounds.
It was an insanely complicated problem, because he had to take into account a quantum twitch in Einsteinian time contraction as the black hole collapsed into existence from a somewhat larger mass, and because the relativistic speed at which the hole was traveling distorted space itself, making a sort of furrow along an Einsteinian geodesic.
Silent for a moment, the workings of his mind were clear in the furrowing of his brows and tight line of his jaw.
While he read, she watched his face, brows sometimes furrowing, puzzling out a word.
Michael came to her side, concern furrowing his brow and bringing reassuring steel to his voice.
He quickly pulled on his pants, his brow furrowing with discomfort as he arranged himself enough to fasten the buttoned fly.