Word Meanings - FURROW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

voor, OHG. furuh, G. furche, Dan. fure, Sw. f, Icel. for drain, L. 1. A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow. 2. Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age. Farrow weed a weed which

Additional info about word: FURROW

voor, OHG. furuh, G. furche, Dan. fure, Sw. f, Icel. for drain, L. 1. A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow. 2. Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age. Farrow weed a weed which grows on plowed land. Shak. -- To draw a straight furrow, to live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty. Lowell.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FURROW)

• Corrugate
• Furrow
• groove
• rumple
• crumple
• wrinkle
• ruffle
• crease

Related words: (words related to FURROW)

• RUMPLED
  Wrinkled; crumpled. Pope.
• RUFFLEMENT
  The act of ruffling.
• CREASE
  See TENNISON
• RUFFLER
  1. One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian. Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers. Milton. 2. That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles.
• FURROWY
  Furrowed. Tennyson.
• RUMPLESS
  Destitute of a rump.
• WRINKLE
  1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. "Sport that wrinkled Care derides." Milton. Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. Pope. 2. Hence, to make rough
• CREASER
  A tool for making the band impression distinct on the back. Knight. (more info) 1. A tool, or a sewing-mashine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by. 2. A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet
• CORRUGATE
  Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.
• RUFFLE
  To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum. 6. To discompose; to agitate; to disturb. These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind. Sir W. Hamilton. But, ever after, the small violence done Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart. Tennyson. 7. To
• GROOVER
  1. One who or that which grooves. 2. A miner. Holloway.
• FURROW
  Etym: 1. To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea. Shak. 2. To mark with channels or with wrinkles. Thou canst help time to furrow me with age. Shak. Fair cheeks were furrowed with hot tears. Byron.
• RUFFLELESS
  Having no ruffle.
• CRUMPLE
  To draw or press into wrinkles or folds to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper. They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made. Addison.
• GROOVE
  A shaft or excavation. (more info) 1. A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut. 2. Hence: The habitual course
• RUMPLE
  A fold or plait; a wrinkle. Dryden.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• TRUFFLE
  Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle and the English truffle are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm , the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious
• UNDERFURROW
  To cover as under a furrow; to plow in; as, to underfurrow seed or manure.
• WATER-FURROW
  To make water furrows in.
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• UNRUMPLE
  To free from rumples; to spread or lay even,
• DECREASELESS
  Suffering no decrease. It flows and flows, and yet will flow, Volume decreaseless to the final hour. A. Seward.
• POLYGROOVED
  Having many grooves; as, a polygrooved rifle or gun (referring to the rifling).
• WATER FURROW
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• UNRUFFLED
  Not ruffled or agitated; smooth; calm; tranquil; quiet. Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea. Addison.