Word Finder - furrow

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A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.

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Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.

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Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.

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A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.

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When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.

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To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).

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Cart wheels can furrow roads.

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To wrinkle.

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To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.

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As she read the document intently her brows began to furrow.

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• frown

A narrow deep furrow is usually run immediately in advance of the planter, to break up the soil under the seed.

Following in the furrow of an ordinary plough it breaks through the sub-soil to a depth of several inches, making it porous and penetrable by plant roots.

Each had its own plot of land divided from its neighbor by a deep furrow.

In the cortical tissue beneatJI each furrow a wide intercellular space is present running the length of the internode, and called the (C, D, E from Strasburger's Lehrbuch der Bolanik, by permission of Gustav Fischer.) FIG.

In operation the coulter makes a perpendicular cut separating the furrow-slice which is divided from the "sole" of the furrow Crested Furrow.

But there exists a striking difference between the crests of the Astin-tagh and those of the ranges which give rise to the gigantic ridge and furrow arrangement on the Tibetan plateau.

In Valencinia there is nothing but a circular opening without furrow.

In the operation of ploughing the furrow slice is separated from the soil below, and although in humid soils this layer may be left to settle by degrees, in semi-arid regions this loosened layer becomes.

The side-cap, iron fixed to the land-side of the frame, is intended to keep the edge of the unploughed soil vertical and prevent it from falling into the furrow.

A piece of iron called the slade is bolted to the bottom of the frame, and this, running along the sole of the furrow, acts as a base to the whole implement.

The process is indicated in the illustration of different types of furrow.

In this form of plough the frame is mounted on three wheels, one of which runs on the land, and the other two in the furrow.

As the machine is drawn forward the disk revolves and cuts deeply into the ground, and by reason of its inclination crowds the earth outwards and thus turns a furrow.

Similarly we may note the caldron or small steep depression of a round outline, and the furrow or long narrow groove in the continental shelf.

Thus are formed the " mud-holes " of the Hudson Furrow so welcome as guides telling their position to ship captains making New York harbour in a fog.

The ground is then left unworked and open to the crumbling influence of frost till towards the end of winter, when it is stirred with the cultivator followed by the harrows, or in some cases ploughed with a shallow furrow.

According to the story, during the ploughing of a field near Tarquinii a being of boyish appearance sprang out of the furrow.

For example, the country gone over is seldom level springy turf; it is up hill and down dale, across ridge and furrow, over ground studded with ant-hills (which, unlike mole-hills, are often very hard), over ploughed or boggy land.

Beyond, again, lies a broad furrow, or ` longitudinal fold,' as geologists call it, parallel to the ridges, and then rises the last elevation, a belt of low calcareous hills, on which, here and there among the waves of beech forest, purple or blue with distance, a white cliff retains its local colour and shines like a patch of fresh snow.

Beneath each food-groove was a radial water-vessel and probably a nerve and blood-vessel, all which structures passed either between certain regularly arranged thecal plates, or along a furrow floored by those plates, which were then in two alternating series.

The division between the lobes is marked on the face of the anther by a groove or furrow, and there is usually on the face a suture, indicating the line of dehiscence.

A ring ditch and evidence for ridge and furrow cultivation were also detected.

Her blood smelled sweet, and the oddly charged aura around her made his brow furrow.

Using these buoys to guide the direction of tow, a grapnel, a species of fivepronged anchor, attached to a strong compound rope formed of strands of steel and manila, is lowered to the bottom and dragged at a slow speed, as it were ploughing a furrow in the sea bottom, in a line at right angles to the cable route, until the behaviour of the dynamometer shows that the cable is hooked.

A depression of small extent when steep-sided is termed a " caldron," and a long narrow depression crossing a part of the continental border is termed a " furrow."

By means of them the depth and width of the furrow are regulated, whereas in the case of "swing" or wheelless ploughs these points depend chiefly on the skill of the ploughman.

The land wheel and the forward furrow wheel are adjustable vertically with reference to the frame, for the purpose of controlling the action of the plough.

Each sar, month and hour was represented at once visibly and symbolically by a twelfth part of the " furrow " drawn by the solar Bull across the heavens.

It frequently extends downwards a little on the rachilla, forming with the latter a swollen callus, which is separated from the free portion by a furrow.

In cases of doubt, evidence may be obtained from traces of organic structure, from the presence of carbonaceous matter, or, as Zeiller has pointed out, by the remains of animals such as Bryozoa being attached to the cast, showing that it represents a solid body and not a mere cavity or furrow.

The idea that it bothered him enough to provoke a deal made her brow furrow.

Some ridge and furrow appears to occupy old crofts.

Medieval ridge and furrow earthworks and three post medieval tree stumps were recorded within the development area.

They didn't see us plow a lonely furrow in the Fourth under Harry Gregg.

It had cut a long furrow across the face of Io, leaving a trail of smoking wreckage in its wake.

This will make a small furrow suitable for sowing your seeds in, which will be perfectly straight.

Alexander Frei looked particularly sharp for the Swiss, despite plowing a lone furrow up front.

Peacock was left to plow a lone furrow up front with his fellow forward supplementing a packed midfield.

Determined to plow her own furrow she dug herself deeper into a hole.

The mechanism by which the microtubules communicated the positioning of the cleavage furrow in mammalian cells was largely unknown.

On this view Wheeler, however, compares with the " dorsal organ " the peculiar the entire food-canal in most Hexapoda must be regarded as of extra embryonic membrane or indusium which he has observed ectodermal origin, the " endoblast " represents mesoderm only, between serosa and amnion in the embryo of the grasshopper and the median furrow whence it arises can be no longer compared Xiphidium.

The skim-coulter is shaped like a miniature plough, substituted for or fixed in front of the coulter; it is used chiefly on lea land, to pare off the surface of the soil together with the vegetation thereon, and turn it into the previous furrow, where it is immediately buried by the furrow slice.

Double furrow or multiple ploughs are a combination of two or more ploughs arranged in echelon so as to plough two or more furrows.

The advantage of this plough over the ordinary form is in the absence of sliding friction, and in the mellow and porous condition in which it leaves the bottom of the furrow.

A duct leads to the furrow or canal of the tooth.

The cultivated lands of Britain being disposed in ridges which usually lie in the line of greatest ascent, it became customary to form the drains in each furrow, or in each alternate, or third or fourth one, as the case might require, or views of economy dictate and hence the system soon came to be popularly called "furrow draining."

A plowman and his great plow, now standing idle in the furrow, had in a day wrought a terrible havoc.

Once the soil is prepared, dig a furrow about four inches wide and about 6 to 12 inches deep.

By the end of the first season, the furrow should be filled to the top.

What we do find is a slight transverse furrow on each side of the head, close to the tip, but the most careful examination of sections made through the tissues of the head and brain shows the absence of any further apparatus comparable to that described above.