rotary harrow
- noun
- /ˈroʊtəri ˈhɛroʊ/
- Specialized
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grada rotativa
- The farmer used a rotary harrow to prepare the field before planting.
Examples
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After several passes with the rotary harrow, the soil was fine and level.
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Modern rotary harrows are designed to minimize soil compaction while tilling.
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The rotary harrow is essential for preparing the soil.
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Farmers often use a rotary harrow to aerate the soil.
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The farmer used a rotary harrow to prepare the field before planting.
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Modern rotary harrows are designed to minimize soil compaction while tilling.
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After several passes with the rotary harrow, the soil was fine and level.
Synonyms
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5.0
A farming tool that breaks up soil and helps control weeds
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6.9
A machine with turning blades that breaks up and loosens garden soil
A farm tool with round metal disks that breaks up and smooths soil
A farming tool with metal spikes that loosens soil and removes small weeds
How Deep
- Specialized
- Specialized
- Specialized
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1.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'rotary' = rotating and 'harrow' = an implement for smoothing soil, so a 'rotary harrow' is predictably a harrow that rotates to work the soil. This simple adjective + noun modification follows regular English word-formation patterns and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The noun rotary harrow comes from how the machine works: rotary means turning and a harrow is a tool for breaking soil, so the machine has turning, spiked wheels that dig and smooth the ground. That's why the term means 'a tool to break up and smooth soil'.