furrow

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈfʌɹoʊ/
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/ˈfʌɹoʊ/ · /ˈfɝoʊ/ · /ˈfʌɹəʊ/

Definition of furrow

7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Any trench, channel, or groove; often found on wood or metal.
    “Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.”
    “The family feeling was intensified as we stopped to speak to mothers in the cottage gardens, or waved to distant tractors turning over chocolate-brown furrows and driven by 'my dad' or 'my Uncle Bob'.”
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noun

  1. Any trench, channel, or groove; often found on wood or metal.
    “Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.”
    “The family feeling was intensified as we stopped to speak to mothers in the cottage gardens, or waved to distant tractors turning over chocolate-brown furrows and driven by 'my dad' or 'my Uncle Bob'.”
  2. Any trench, channel, or groove; often found on wood or metal.
    “When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.”

verb

  1. (transitive)To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).
    “Cart wheels can furrow roads.”
    “Morn in the white wake of the morning star / Came furrowing all the orient into gold.”
  2. (transitive)To wrinkle.
  3. (transitive)To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.
    “As she pored over the company's bewildering tax documents, she furrowed her brows, wrinkled her nose, and began to frown her befuddlement.”
  4. (intransitive)to become furrowed
    “If you were bold enough to ask Antonin Scalia questions, you had to be precise. Otherwise the bushy black brows would furrow, the chin would crumple and the pudgy, puckish body would start to rock, eager to get at you.”

name

  1. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar̃šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit पर्शान (párśāna, “chasm”).

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