furrow
part of speech
noun (a furrow, furrows); verb (furrow, furrows, furrowed, furrowing)
meaning for a pupil
1) A long narrow groove cut into the soil by a plough. tree →
2) A deep line or wrinkle on the skin, especially the forehead. tree →
3) (verb) To make lines on your forehead by frowning: «He furrowed his brow.» tree →
4) (verb) To plough a field into grooves. tree →
5) A furrow can also be any long, shallow groove in a surface, such as the groove along an animal's horn. tree →
sense in the lessons
In farming and history lessons fields are ploughed into straight furrows for planting seeds. In stories, a furrowed brow shows a character is worried or thinking hard. Proverb: «to plough a lonely furrow» means to work alone without help.
examples
- The farmer ploughed long straight furrows across the field. tree →
- Seeds were dropped into the furrows. tree →
- Gulls followed the plough to eat worms from the furrows. tree →
- She furrowed her brow over the hard sum. tree →
- Deep furrows lined the old man's face. tree →
- The Mole saw the furrows of the brown fields from the bank. tree →
- It has one horn about a cubit long which is solid, but has a furrow from the base to the tip. tree →
note
Rhymes with «borrow». Regular verb: furrowed. Do not confuse with «burrow» (an animal's hole) or «ferret».
In the corpora
- They speak words, they swear falsely, they make covenants; thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
- Watering her ridges abundantly, settling down the furrows thereof, Thou makest her soft with showers; Thou blessest the growth thereof.
- The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
- If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together;
- Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow?
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «furrow» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.