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harrow

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1377, OED Evaluation: N/A

To draw a harrow over; to break up, crush, or pulverize with a harrow.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And he'd disk it all up, like in ready for- and then he'd take the harrows and he'd go to the harrows, and then he'd take the cedar and he'd seed them. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And ah then he'd harrow again. And c-- to cover the grain like this. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: It was a lot of work on the farm. But ah we never had a tractor on our place at all.
To draw a harrow over; to break up, crush, or pulverize with a harrow.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Did you ever had to clear, ah, fields to get it ready for, ah- for planting? Do you remember doing that? Speaker: Oh yes. No, the women didn't do that. Interviewer: No, that was- that would be- Speaker: That was ploughing (inc) harrowing and all that-sort-of-thing. Interviewer: Mm. No, I meant even before that when it was just, um, sort of- Speaker: Sod.
To draw a harrow over; to break up, crush, or pulverize with a harrow.
Speaker: Well, we just go in- and when it sort of- there- ploughs would plough it all up and pick any stones there were, place them on the dikes, you then plough your land or then harrow it. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Harrowing is kind of just to- to smooth it all, you-know?
To draw a harrow over; to break up, crush, or pulverize with a harrow.
ExampleMeaning
... if they were sowing by hand they could spread the seed and it wouldn't- ah, th-- the plough f-- furrow would be turned up, so they didn't lose the seed. Then if they harrowed the top off, they could go ah- now that's a while ago, but that's the way you're thinking.
To draw a harrow over; to break up, crush, or pulverize with a harrow.
ExampleMeaning
... through the summer, you went out there and that's what you did, you split wood. There was always something on the go. If you weren't cleaning out calf pens or harrowing or-whatever, you split wood and piled it up in a pile. Let it sun dry. And then the- the- he also came with an old cut-box. And nobody has them anymore, they've got forage harvesters and-all-the-rest-of-it.
To draw a harrow over; to break up, crush, or pulverize with a harrow.
Interviewer 1: Now you mentioned another word when you were talking about that. Harrow. Harrowing. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer 1: What's that? Speaker: Well it's not the same harrowing as what you get now. Because i-- you get harrowed now with the government (laughs) Interviewer 2: (laughs) Speaker: The- y-- y-- the harrows- Interviewer 2: Like harrow (inc) Speaker: Norma-- normally the- it was ah, i-- in a diamond shape. And they're like spikes. They'd be- if they weren't wore down they'd be about that long. Interviewer 1: Yeah. Speaker: So you had a- a grid of steel this way, and then this way. And in the corners of the diamonds was all the pegs for the harrows. And what your harrows did, if- and this i-- when they changed um- when they changed things around and w-- got rid of the horses, and got tractors, if you're driving through the country now you can see all kinds of steep old hills and where there was fence bottoms.
To draw a harrow over; to break up, crush, or pulverize with a harrow.
Speaker: ... plough it with the horses and when you out in the spring, as soon as you- they call it tickling-the-top-off with a hose- with a hose- Interviewer: Tickling-the-top-off? Speaker: And that- that (inc) up enough and it started to dry and- and you go out and harrowed a bit and it started to dry up and when it dried up a bit, then you take- and- and if you wanted to cultivate it well then, that dug in a little bit more but if you took your cultivator out first ...
To draw a harrow over; to break up, crush, or pulverize with a harrow.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: She stayed in the- on the farm and-that so we were in those farms so I used to harrow and- not so much harrow. I rowed and I row-- yeah, I-guess I did harrow. Interviewer: Harrow t-- Speaker: Yeah, I did the harrowing and-that after the- Interviewer: Sometimes we get together on it (inc)- Speaker: After he did the sowing and then- Interviewer: You'd roll (inc). Speaker: I did the rolling and sow and-
To draw a harrow over; to break up, crush, or pulverize with a harrow.