Definition of "harrow" []

• A farm implement consisting of a heavy frame with sharp teeth or upright disks, used to break up and even off plowed ground. (noun)
• To break up and level (soil or land) with a harrow. (verb-transitive)
• To inflict great distress or torment on. (verb-transitive)
• Archaic To plunder; sack. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And then the crash of high explosive bombs, bursting in harrow-tooth lines across the city."
• "The harrow is a large bundle of brushwood, on which some one squats to weight it down."
• "The harrow was a crude device, knocked together by one of the Blacks from a fork in an oak trunk."