Also see definition of "Furrow" in Bible Study Dictionaries
Word Study
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS
Furrow
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Furrow has 2 senses
- furrow(n = noun.artifact) Array - a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow); Array has particulars: cut, gash
- furrow(n = noun.shape) crease, crinkle, line, seam, wrinkle - a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" is a part of cutis, skin, tegument
is a kind of trench
Derived form verb furrow1
is a kind of depression, impression, imprint
has particulars: crow's feet, crow's foot, laugh line, dermatoglyphic, frown line, life line, lifeline, line of life, heart line, line of heart, love line, mensal line, line of destiny, line of fate, line of saturn
Derived form verb furrow2
Verb Furrow has 3 senses
- furrow(v = verb.contact) groove, rut - hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil" is one way to cut into, delve, dig, turn over
- furrow(v = verb.contact) crease, wrinkle - make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" is one way to fold, fold up, turn up
- furrow(v = verb.contact) chamfer, chase - cut a furrow into a columns; Array is one way to cut
Derived form noun furrow1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derived form noun furrow2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
Furrow, n. [OE. forow, forgh, furgh, AS. furh; akin to D. voor, OHG. furuh, G. furche, Dan. fure, Sw. fra, Icel. for drain, L. porca ridge between two furrows.].
- A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow. [1913 Webster]
- Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age. [1913 Webster]
- To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To mark with channels or with wrinkles. [1913 Webster]"Thou canst help time to furrow me with age." [1913 Webster]"Fair cheeks were furrowed with hot tears." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Furrow, n. & v.
--n.
1 a narrow trench made in the ground by a plough.
2 a rut, groove, or deep wrinkle.
3 a ship's track.
--v.tr.
1 plough.
2 a make furrows, grooves, etc. in. b mark with wrinkles.
--n.
1 a narrow trench made in the ground by a plough.
2 a rut, groove, or deep wrinkle.
3 a ship's track.
--v.tr.
1 plough.
2 a make furrows, grooves, etc. in. b mark with wrinkles.
Idiom
furrow-slice the slice of earth turned up by the mould-board of a plough.
Derivative
furrowless adj. furrowy adj.
Etymology
OE furh f. Gmc
THESAURUS
Furrow
abysm, abyss, alveolation, alveolus, arroyo, autolithograph, be a printmaker, bore, box canyon, breach, break, burrow, canal, canalize, canyon, carve, cavity, chamfer, channel, chap, character, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chisel, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, cocker, cockle, col, corrugate, corrugation, coulee, couloir, crack, crankle, cranny, crease, crevasse, crevice, cribble, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crosshatch, crumple, cut, cut apart, cwm, dado, defile, dell, delve, dent, dig, dig out, dike, dimple, dint, ditch, donga, draw, dredge, drill, drive, enchase, engrave, excavate, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, flute, fold, fosse, fracture, gap, gape, gash, goffer, gorge, gouge, gouge out, grave, groove, grub, gulch, gulf, gully, gutter, harrow, hatch, hole, honeycomb, impress, impression, imprint, incise, incision, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, inscribe, joint, kloof, knit, knot, leak, line, lithograph, lower, make prints, mark, mine, moat, notch, nullah, open, opening, pass, passage, pit, pleat, plica, plow, pock, pockmark, print, pucker, purse, quarry, rabbet, ravine, rent, ridge, rifle, rift, rime, rimple, ripple, rive, rivel, ruck, ruckle, rumple, rupture, rut, sap, scissure, scoop, scoop out, score, scrabble, scrape, scratch, sculpture, seam, shirr, shovel, sink, slit, slot, spade, split, stipple, streak, striate, sulcation, sulcus, sunken part, tool, track, trench, trough, tunnel, valley, void, wadi, wimple, wrinkleROGET THESAURUS
Furrow
Interval
N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.Furrow
N furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit, chamfer, fluting, corduroy road, cradle hole, channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke, moat, fosse, trough, kennel, ravine, tajo, thank-ye-ma'am, furrowed, ribbed, striated, sulcated, fluted, canaliculated, bisulcous, bisulcate, bisulcated, canaliferous, trisulcate, corduroy, unisulcate, costate, rimiform.VB furrow, flute, plow, incise, engrave, etch, bite in.
Also see definition of "Furrow" in Bible Study Dictionaries
For further exploring for "Furrow" in Webster Dictionary Online
