harrow

One man rides a draft horse dragging a wooden harrow, weighted down by a boulder, to break up the soil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

Until 10 years ago, each autumn the brothers would laboriously turn over lifeless slabs of clay, which needed to be pulverised with a power harrow before sowing could begin.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2020

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

He now owns two tractors and a combine; his barn and tool sheds are jammed with plows, harrows, seeders.

From Time Magazine Archive

After graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1926, he got his little family-owned motor company to branch out into planters, seeders and harrows, invented a machine that speeded peanut shelling by 600% .

From Time Magazine Archive

There was an old set of harrows behind him.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover