Word Finder - harrow

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A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow.

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An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.

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To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.

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To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment.

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To break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.

He afterwards went to Harrow and to Balliol College, Oxford.

Improvements in the plough, harrow and roller were introduced, adapting those implements to different soils and purposes.

He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1786.

Harrow down the clods, level the ridges by cross ploughing, work the land thoroughly.

Educated at Harrow, Brasenose College, Oxford, and Göttingen, he was elected fellow of Brasenose and in 1884 keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, holding this post till 1908.

Rufus King's son, John Alsop King (1788-1867), was educated at Harrow and in Paris, served in the war of 1812 as a lieutenant of a cavalry company, and was a member of the New York Assembly in1819-1821and of the New York Senate in 1823.

Scare off the birds, harrow up the weeds, cut down all that shades the crop. Ploughs, waggons, threshing-sledges, harrows, baskets, hurdles, winnowing-fans are the farmer's implements.

Their implements are very primitive, consisting of a plough fashioned from a fork of a tree, and a rude harrow.

In 1885 he abandoned journalism, and became Liberal candidate for the Harrow division of Middlesex at the general election, but was defeated.

The Metropolitan railway has a line from Baker Street through north-west London to Harrow, continuing to Uxbridge, while the original main line runs on to Rickmansworth, Aylesbury and Verney Junction, but has been worked by the Metropolitan and Great Central companies jointly since 1906.

The Metropolitan District (commonly called the District) system serves Wimbledon, Richmond, Ealing and Harrow on the west, and passes eastward by Earl's Court, South Kensington, Victoria and Mansion House (City) to Whitechapel and Bow.

Large gatherings of spectators are attracted to the first-class cricket matches played at Lord's ground, St John's Wood, by the Marylebone Club and the Middlesex County teams, Eton College against Harrow School, and Oxford against Cambridge University; to the Kennington Oval for the matches of the Surrey club, and the Leyton ground for those of the Essex club.

He died near Harrow on the 14th of July 1907.

His eldest Son, William Henry Perkin, who was born at Sudbury, near Harrow, on the 17th of June 1860, and was educated at the City of London School, the Royal College of Science, and the universities of Wiirzburg and Munich, became professor of chemistry at the Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, in 1887, and professor of organic chemistry at Owens College, Manchester, in 1892.

The influence of the revival extended to many other schools, such as Christ's Hospital (1552), Westminster (1560), and Merchant Taylors' (1561); Repton (1 557), Rugby (1567) and Harrow (1571).

The text-books to be used at Harrow in 1590 included Hesiod and some of the Greek orators and historians.

William was educated at Laleham, Eton, Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford.

His bent for science showed itself while he was still a schoolboy, and indeed his removal from Eton to Harrow is said to have been occasioned by an accidental explosion which occurred whilst he was performing an experiment for his own amusement.

At Harrow he obtained in 1842 a Lyon scholarship, and at Oxford in 1845 a first-class in mathematics, in 1846 the junior and in 1847 the senior university mathematical scholarship. In 1846 he left Oxford to take his father's place in the business, in which he was engaged until his death.

In 1868 Westcott was appointed examining chaplain by Bishop Connor Magee (of Peterborough); and in the following year he accepted a canonry at Peterborough, which necessitated his leaving Harrow.

Lord Rawdon, as he was then called, was educated at Harrow and Oxford, and joined the army in 1771 as ensign in the 15th foot.

He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he took a first class in literae humaniores in 1869.

He was also a fellow of Brasenose College, honorary fellow of Exeter, a fellow of the British Academy and of other learned societies, and a governor of Harrow School.

From Harrow he went to Balliol College, Oxford.

These qualities adhered to him through life, and he had scarcely left Harrow, at the age of eighteen, when the death of his father (April 17, 1802) raised him to the Irish peerage.

Retford, thence serving Grimsby and Hull, with branches to Lincoln, &c. The main line reached from London by joining the line of the Metropolitan railway near Aylesbury and following it to Harrow.

He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, Subsequently he studied medicine at St George's hospital, and chemistry at University College, London.

The wheat region is a country of heavy snows, and of severe, dry cold; but when March comes the snows begin to melt away, and by April the ploughed land is dry enough for the harrow.

One man can harrow 60 to 73 acres a day.

The earliest suggestion that horses were used in agriculture is derived from a piece of the Bayeux tapestry, where a horse is represented as drawing a harrow.

Charles Merivale was at Harrow School (1818 to 1824) under Dr Butler.

Young county champs seek national glory HARROW St Mary's won the regional final of the Under-13 National Club championship on Tuesday.

Cereals sown on wide rows, 25 cm (9 3/4 inch) At 2 leaf stage go through with the harrow comb.

The Harrow Safe Home Project has brought gains through target hardening.

Among the grass, underfoot, is thyme, the spiny rest harrow, yellow kidney vetch, and pale blue harebells.

Leys are plowed and cereals drilled using a power harrow and drill combination unit.

A new spring tine harrow specially designed for use on grassland is solving an age-old problem for dairy farmer Will Taylor.

The decision to buy an 18m Opico comb harrow was made to pre-empt a possible future levy on agrochemical use.

Photo C - cultivating the soil by disk harrow in Britain.

We've tried the chain harrow in the past without anything like the same benefits.

The gang of seven were sentenced at Harrow Crown Court after earlier pleading guilty to their roles in the attempted heist.

Harrow Cllr defects to the Greens 27th Apr 2006 " If you want honesty in politics, you have to vote for it.

Very recently a Harrow pupil spent a Gap Year in Japan learning judo.

The current recommendation for Harrow is a lotion containing malathion.

A multi-screen cinema, an Asian cinema and of course the historic Harrow School, alma mater of such notables as Sir Winston Churchill.

And as far as grass establishment is concerned, he agrees that the grass harrow and air seeder does a good job.

This has allowed a good tilth to be obtained following a plow / power harrow approach.

Educated at Harrow, Brasenose College, Oxford, and Göttingen, he was elected fellow of Brasenose and in 1884 keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, holding this post till 1908.

The chief implements were a wooden plough of simple and light construction, a hoe or mattock, and a light harrow.

On the west and north the residential suburbs immediately outside the county include Acton and Ealing, Willesden, Highgate, Finchley and Hornsey; from the last two a densely populated district extends north through Wood Green and Southgate to Barnet and Enfield; while the " residential influence " of the metropolis far exceeds these limits, and may be observed at Harrow and Pinner, Bushey and Boxmoor, St Albans, Harpenden, Stevenage and many other places.