Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who harrows or despoils.
- noun A species of hawk; a harrier.
- noun One who harrows.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who harrows.
- noun obsolete One who harries.
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- noun One who
harrows .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is all the more likely if Jesus really did consider himself to be royal—of the line of David—for a dead Pharaoh automatically became ‘an Osiris’ and became ruler of the heavens and harrower of the Underworld, through the magical intervention of Isis.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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This is all the more likely if Jesus really did consider himself to be royal—of the line of David—for a dead Pharaoh automatically became ‘an Osiris’ and became ruler of the heavens and harrower of the Underworld, through the magical intervention of Isis.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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The spinner is almost always a distinct person from the weaver; but the ploughman, the harrower, the sower of the seed, and the reaper of the corn, are often the same.
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Ought you not to have ventured to say the harrower first?
The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847
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The spinner is almost always a distinct person from the weaver; but the ploughman, the harrower, the sower of the seed, and the reaper of the corn, are often the same.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 1756
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This project is much less hazardous than my automatic harrower ... "
The Dragons of Krynn Weis, Margaret 1994
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