furrow
fur·row (fʉr′ō)
noun
- a narrow groove made in the ground by a plow
- anything resembling this, as a deep, narrow rut made by a wheel, a deep wrinkle on the face, etc.
- Obsolete plowed land
Etymology: ME forwe < OE furh, akin to Ger furche (OHG furuh) < IE base *perk-, to dig up, furrow > *porkos, L porca, furrow, porcus, pig (lit., digger)
intransitive verb
- to make furrows
- to become wrinkled
Object
- brow: Alan now had a furrowed brow to add to his hands on hips pose.
- field: One farmer for whom we worked had furrowed the field at right angles to his farmhouse.
Converse of object
- plow: They didn't see us plow a lonely furrow in the Fourth under Harry Gregg.
- cut: It had cut a long furrow across the face of Io, leaving a trail of smoking wreckage in its wake.
- make: This will make a small furrow suitable for sowing your seeds in, which will be perfectly straight.
- plow: Alexander Frei looked particularly sharp for the Swiss, despite plowing a lone furrow up front.
Adjective modifier
- lonely: They didn't see us plow a lonely furrow in the Fourth under Harry Gregg.
- lone: Peacock was left to plow a lone furrow up front with his fellow forward supplementing a packed midfield.
- straight: Drill: Narrow, straight furrow in the soil, used for sowing seeds.
- medieval: Previously evaluation work in the northeastern part of the site recorded a series of medieval furrows.
- deep: Each had its own plot of land divided from its neighbor by a deep furrow.
- own: Determined to plow her own furrow she dug herself deeper into a hole.
Modifies a noun
- earthwork: Medieval ridge and furrow earthworks and three post medieval tree stumps were recorded within the development area.
- cultivation: Evidence for medieval ridge and furrow cultivation was also detected.
- plow: The ' Yeoman ' at work with the Turner four furrow plow.
- field: There are several remnants of ridge and furrow field systems.
- system: The ridge and furrow system is to be restored in the new works.
Modifying Another Word
- deeply: Bark: Gray, thick, rough, deeply furrowed.
- deep: Years of poverty without hope had worn deep furrows into the brows of the beggars who approached us on the street.
Noun used with modifier
- cleavage: The mechanism by which the microtubules communicated the positioning of the cleavage furrow in mammalian cells was largely unknown.
My father worked with a horse-plough, His shoulders globed like a full sail strung Between the shafts and the furrow.
Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font: The fire-fly wakens: waken thou, with me. Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Dana' to the stars, 842 And all thy heart lies open unto me. Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake: So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me.
For the present at any rate, I must proceed alone. I must plough my own furrow aloneöbut before I get to the end of that furrow, it is possible that I may not find myself alone.
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