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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 har·row /ˈhær(ˌ)o/
 耙,哈囉公學(vt.)耙掘,傷害,使苦惱(vi.)被耙松

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Har·row n.
 1. An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.
 2. Mil. An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
 Bush harrow, a kind of light harrow made of bushes, for harrowing grass lands and covering seeds, or to finish the work of a toothed harrow.
 Drill harrow. See under 6th Drill.
 Under the harrow, subjected to actual torture with a toothed instrument, or to great affliction or oppression.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Har·row, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harrowed p. pr. & vb. n. Harrowing.]
 1. To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land.
    Will he harrow the valleys after thee?   --Job xxxix. 10.
 2. To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.
    My aged muscles harrowed up with whips.   --Rowe.
 I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word
 Would harrow up thy soul.   --Shak.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Har·row, interj.  Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor; -- the ancient Norman hue and cry. Harrow and well away!”
    Harrow! alas! here lies my fellow slain.   --Chaucer.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Har·row, v. t.  To pillage; to harry; to oppress. [Obs.]
    Meaning thereby to harrow his people.   --Bacon
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 harrow
      n : a cultivator that pulverizes or smoothes the soil
      v : draw a harrow over (land) [syn: disk]

From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

 Harrow
    (Heb. harits), a tribulum or sharp threshing sledge; a frame
    armed on the under side with rollers or sharp spikes (2 Sam.
    12:31; 1 Chr. 20:3).
      Heb. verb _sadad_, to harrow a field, break its clods (Job
    39:10; Isa. 28:4; Hos. 10: 11). Its form is unknown. It may have
    resembled the instrument still in use in Egypt.