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# furrow

noun (a furrow, furrows); verb (furrow, furrows, furrowed, furrowing)

«furrow» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A long narrow groove cut into the soil by a plough. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furrow/#m1)
2. A deep line or wrinkle on the skin, especially the forehead. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furrow/#m2)
3. (verb) To make lines on your forehead by frowning: «He furrowed his brow.» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furrow/#m3)
4. (verb) To plough a field into grooves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furrow/#m4)
5. A furrow can also be any long, shallow groove in a surface, such as the groove along an animal's horn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furrow/#m5)

### In the lessons

In farming and history lessons fields are ploughed into straight furrows for planting seeds. In stories, a furrowed brow shows a character is worried or thinking hard. Proverb: «to plough a lonely furrow» means to work alone without help.

### Examples

- The farmer ploughed long straight furrows across the field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furrow/#x1)
- Seeds were dropped into the furrows. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furrow/#x2)
- Gulls followed the plough to eat worms from the furrows. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furrow/#x3)
- She furrowed her brow over the hard sum. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furrow/#x4)
- Deep furrows lined the old man's face. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furrow/#x5)
- The Mole saw the furrows of the brown fields from the bank. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furrow/#x6)
- It has one horn about a cubit long which is solid, but has a furrow from the base to the tip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furrow/#x7)

### Note

Rhymes with «borrow». Regular verb: furrowed. Do not confuse with «burrow» (an animal's hole) or «ferret».

## In Jewish tradition

Here it means a groove in a ploughed field. In the primary lessons: In farming and history lessons fields are ploughed into straight furrows for planting seeds. In stories, a furrowed brow shows a character is worried or thinking hard. Proverb: «to plough a lonely furrow» means to work alone without help.

### Examples

- Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? (Writings JOB.39.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#x1)
- The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows. (Writings PSA.129.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#x2)
- If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together; (Writings JOB.31.38, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/#x3)

### Note

Rhymes with «borrow». Regular verb: furrowed. Do not confuse with «burrow» (an animal's hole) or «ferret».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «furrow» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furrow/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «furrow» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/furrow/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«furrow» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/furrow.html) on Mova free.