noun.
An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.
noun.
An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
noun.
a kind of light harrow made of bushes, for harrowing grass lands and covering seeds, or to finish the work of a toothed harrow.
noun.
See under 6th Drill.
noun.
subjected to actual torture with a toothed instrument, or to great affliction or oppression.
interjection.
Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor; -- the ancient Norman hue and cry.
transitive verb.
To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed.
transitive verb.
To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.
transitive verb.
To pillage; to harry; to oppress.