Definition of "furrow" []

• A long, narrow, shallow trench made in the ground by a plow. (noun)
• A rut, groove, or narrow depression: snow drifting in furrows. (noun)
• A deep wrinkle in the skin, as on the forehead. (noun)
• To make long, narrow, shallow trenches in; plow. (verb-transitive)
• To form grooves or deep wrinkles in. (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.

• "The furrow is then filled in, so that the seeds may be covered to the same depth as their own thickness; and the earth is slightly pressed down, and afterwards raked over."
• "Sam was hitched on the right, the so-called furrow horse, charged with walking in the soft dirt of his newly dug ditch, keeping a straight line."
• "At the end of the furrow was the land that had not been claimed from the forest-forest that held so many dangers that sending him out here might just as well have been a death sentence."