furrow
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈfɜːroʊ/
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surco
- Instead, they grew used to stepping over or walking inside the deep furrows she left in her wake.
- irrigation furrows
- plowed furrows
- ridges and furrows
Examples
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And here we can see a set of quite remarkable furrows and grooves running along here.
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Good thing that yesterday they at least filled the furrows with water.
Fiction book (1996) -
Art reached down and picked up a handful of earth from the furrow nearest him.
Fiction book (1992) -
Behind the boy, also walking in the furrow, was a large hound.
Fiction book (1992) -
Along the streambed, Dale could see deep erosion furrows, a sure sign of poor range management.
Fiction book (2000) -
OK, so you're going to take a hoe and you're just going to make what they call a furrow all the way down.
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Peasants did not construct a system of ridges and furrows for arrowroot, as they did for food crops and cotton.
Academic text (1997) -
The great cotton fields of Dixie, rutted by the wheels of caisson cannons, once more were being marked with neat furrows.
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Sheets inspects plaster impressions of manioc crops and farm furrows at the ancient Maya village of Cern.
Academic text (2009) -
Farmers create furrows in the soil to plant their seeds in neat rows.
Synonyms
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1.0
A long, narrow trench in the ground that carries water
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4.4
A long narrow groove made by water or tools
A long straight line in soil made for planting seeds
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A farming tool with two curved blades that turns over two long rows of soil at once
- Specialized
A plow that turns over two or more rows of soil at the same time
- Specialized
A farming tool with two blades that turns over soil when pulled by a tractor
How Deep
Surface Forms
Etymology
Furrow comes from an old English word furh meaning 'a line made by a plow'. It originally named the long trench a plow makes for seeds, which is why a furrow is the narrow trench in a field.