Furrow

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: fur=row

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]

Farrow weed a weed which grows on plowed land. Shak. -- To draw a straight furrow, to live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty. Lowell.

Furrow, v. t. [From Furrow, n.; cf. AS. fyrian.].

•  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.

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, wrinkle

ROGET 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.