furrow
pronunciation
How to pronounce furrow in British English:
UK [ˈfʌrəʊ]
How to pronounce furrow in American English:
US [ˈfɜːroʊ]
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- Noun:
- a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow)
- a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
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- Verb:
- hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
- make wrinkled or creased
- cut a furrow into a columns
Word Origin
- furrow
- furrow: [OE] Furrow is an ancient agricultural term, going back to the prehistoric Indo- European base *prk-, which also produced Welsh rhych ‘furrow’, Armenian herk ‘newly ploughed land’, Latin porca ‘ridge between furrows’, and possibly also Sanskrit parçãna- ‘chasm’ and Latin porcus ‘grave’. Its Germanic descendant was *furkh-, which produced German furche, Dutch voor, Swedish fåra, and English furrow.=> furlong
- furrow (n.)
- Middle English furwe, forowe, forgh, furch, from Old English furh "furrow, trench in the earth made by a plow," from Proto-Germanic *furkh- (cognates: Old Frisian furch "furrow;" Middle Dutch vore, Dutch voor; German Furche "furrow;" Old Norse for "furrow, drainage ditch"), from PIE *perk- (2) "to dig, tear out" (cognates: Latin porca "ridge between two furrows," Old Irish -rech, Welsh rhych "furrow"). General meaning "narrow trench or channel" is from early 14c. In reference to a deep wrinkle on the face, by 1580s.
- furrow (v.)
- early 15c., "to plow, make furrows in," from furrow (n.). Meaning "to make wrinkles in one's face, brow, etc." is from 1590s. Old English had furian (v.). Related: Furrowed; furrowing.
Example
- 1. There is little or no median furrow .
- 2. Care have cause deep furrow to appear on her forehead .
- 3. Love the anguished furrow from your senescent phiz .
- 4. To be fixedly laid indoor , in cable furrow or .
- 5. Total dissolved solids content in the soil of bed and furrow during the waxy corn growing periods for different treatments .