harrow
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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
And when the plowing was done and the worms had all disappeared, either eaten or safely underground, Mr. Fitzgibbon came back with the harrow, breaking down the furrows, and turned them all up again.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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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
It lacks tractors, plows, harrows to till the rich valleys and lowlands.
From Time Magazine Archive
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On thousands of U.S. farms, plows and disc harrows turned back the black earth for next month's corn planting.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And in his shop he sharpened plows and mended harrows and welded broken axles and shod horses.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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