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Plural of harrow

regular plural

The plural of harrow is harrows.

Forms of harrow

Singularharrow /ˈhæɹəʊ/
Pluralharrows
Countablecountable

Harrows in a sentence

  • He sent for the carpenter, who was under contract to be with the threshing-machine, but it turned out that he was mending the harrows, which should have been mended the week before Lent.1918, Louise & Aylmer Maude, Anna Karenina, Oxford, translation of original by Leo Tolstoy, published 1998, page 153
  • Part of your job would be to learn tractor ploughing and the use of planters, harrows, and cultivators.1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann, published 1995, page 28
  • Some Asatruar kindreds call their indoor altars stalls and their outdoor altars harrows.2006, Selene Silverwind, “Asatruar Tools and Practices”, in Everything you need to know about Paganism, David & Charles, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry stall

Meaning of harrow

  1. noun A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow.
  2. noun An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
  3. verb To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.

Full definition of harrow

Questions about the plural of harrow

What is the plural of harrow?
The plural of harrow is harrows.
Is harrow countable?
Harrow is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: harrow (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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