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har⋅row

1[har-oh]
–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.
–verb (used with object)
2. to draw a harrow over (land).
3. to disturb keenly or painfully; distress the mind, feelings, etc., of.
–verb (used without object)
4. to become broken up by harrowing, as soil.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME harwe; akin to ON herfi harrow, D hark rake, Gk krpion sickle


har⋅row⋅er, noun

har⋅row

2[har-oh]
–verb (used with object) Archaic.
1. to ravish; violate; despoil.
2. harry (def. 2).
3. (of Christ) to descend into (hell) to free the righteous held captive.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME harwen, herwen, OE hergian to harry


har⋅row⋅ment, noun

Har⋅row

[har-oh]
–noun
1. a borough of Greater London, in SE England. 201,300.
2. a boarding school for boys, founded in 1571 at Harrow-on-the-Hill, an urban district near London, England.
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har·row 1   (hār'ō)   
n.  A farm implement consisting of a heavy frame with sharp teeth or upright disks, used to break up and even off plowed ground.
tr.v.   har·rowed, har·row·ing, har·rows
  1. To break up and level (soil or land) with a harrow.

  2. To inflict great distress or torment on.


[Middle English harwe.]
har'row·er n.
har·row 2   (hār'ō)   
tr.v.   har·rowed, har·row·ing, har·rows Archaic
To plunder; sack.

[Middle English herwen, variant of harien; see harry.]
Har·row   (hār'ō)   
A borough of Greater London in southeast England. It is the site of the public school Harrow, founded in 1571. Population: 214,000.
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Bible Dictionary

Harrow

(Heb. harits), a tribulum or sharp threshing sledge; a frame armed on the under side with rollers or sharp spikes (2 Sam. 12:31; 1 Chr. 20:3). Heb. verb _sadad_, to harrow a field, break its clods (Job 39:10; Isa. 28:4; Hos. 10: 11). Its form is unknown. It may have resembled the instrument still in use in Egypt.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Encyclopedia

Harrow

outer borough of London, forming part of its northwestern perimeter, in the historic county of Middlesex. Previously a municipal borough, Harrow became a London borough in 1965. It includes (from northwest to southeast) the areas of Pinner Green, Hatch End, Stanmore, Pinner, Harrow Weald, Burnt Oak, Harrow Garden Village, Harrow (with Harrow on the Hill), Wealdstone, Northolt Park, and Roxeth.

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