harrow

Track maintenance will then harrow the track to release the compactness and return it to its regular consistency for racing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2021

Alcée rode his horse under the shelter of a side projection where the chickens had huddled and there were plows and a harrow piled up in the corner.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

In her diary entry for July 15, 1944, Anne Frank wrote words that would harrow and challenge generations not yet born: “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2019

Called DISCOL, the simple trial involved raking the centre of a roughly 11-square-kilometre plot in the Pacific Ocean with an 8-metre-wide implement called a plough harrow.

From Nature ● Jul. 23, 2019

I said: “I was planning to start today. I went yesterday and looked at the field. I have to run the harrow over it first.”

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

Blacksmiths were actually the rocket scientists of their day, because they could make anything and fix anything - wagon wheels, plows and harrows.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 22, 2016

Which is another way of saying that the novel harrows the particular plot she has made her own all these years, of weakness — and why it repels.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2015

Example: the Towner Manufacturing Co. of Santa Ana, Calif, makes offset disc harrows for orchards, because the biggest orchard market is almost in its back yard.

From Time Magazine Archive

Around the track slowly toured a curious contraption on wheels followed by harrows and a screen.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would spend the nights walking around the room thinking aloud, searching for a way to apply the principles of the pendulum to oxcarts, to harrows, to everything that was useful when put into motion.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez