All 3 Uses
harrowing
in
On the Beach
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- Sometimes I drive a bullock round the farm at home, harrowing the muck.†
Chpt 2 *
- I told your father that I'd finish harrowing the hill paddock.†
Chpt 4
- I got fed up with harrowing the dung.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(harrowing as in: a harrowing story) frightening or unsettling
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, harrowing can mean breaking apart soil on a farm. Even more rarely (and archaically), it can mean harrying or harassing as in: "We are harrowing their army as they advance northward."