furrow : Idioms & Phrases


Cross furrow

  • a furrow or trench cut across other furrows to receive the water running in them and conduct it to the side of the field.
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Farrow weed

  • a weed which grows on plowed land. Shak.
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To draw a straight furrow

  • to live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty. Lowell.
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water furrow

Wa"ter fur"row
Definitions
  1. (Agric.) A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
Webster 1913

water-furrow

Wa"ter-fur"row transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To make water furrows in.
Webster 1913