(n.) 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.
(n.) An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
(n.) To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land.
(n.) To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.
(interj.) Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor;-the ancient Norman hue and cry.
(2) A student who lost her leg in the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash says she has been given a new lease of life by a hi-tech prosthetic leg and that she is stronger for her harrowing experience.
(3) Arredondo's story appears equally dramatic and harrowing.
(4) There are some deeply harrowing cases, a lot of people will be disclosing sexual violence and for many of them they won’t have told anyone else before.
(5) Police Scotland have confirmed that they will contact MP Michelle Thomson after she moved colleagues to tears in the Commons on Thursday when she revealed harrowing details of her rape at the age of 14 and its subsequent impact on her life.
(6) Copper levels were elevated to the normal range in both dietary groups of the Gujerati and were similar to the concentrations found in the Harrow groups.
(7) The inquest heard at times harrowing detail about how gangs of local teenagers and children, some as young as 10, had the family "under siege".
(8) Dietary intake of 813 pregnant Harrow Asians of mainly Gujarati descent was compared with the intake of 54 pregnant Europeans living in the same area.
(9) We would not wish any other families to go through this harrowing experience and appeal to everyone to keep calm and show their respect in a peaceful manner."
(10) An already grim night for United might have been even more harrowing if the referee, Martin Atkinson, had taken action against Marouane Fellaini for embedding his studs in the back of James McCarthy's leg.
(11) For Liverpool it has been a harrowing, valedictory year, the kind that deserves a send-off, and they had one here even in defeat.
(12) The trailer comprises a harrowing clip from the film in which the sniper must choose whether to gun down an Iraqi woman and child who appear to be mounting a suicide attack, interspersed with flashbacks to the soldier’s life in America with his own wife and children.
(13) Bosnia-Herzegovina Aligned to Eurovision's Balkan Bloc Harrowingly for Greece, there is a rival Balkan Bloc entry and hurrah, the song is in the local language.
(14) He said: “Among the horror of the refugee crisis, one of the most harrowing images has been the thousands of orphaned children fleeing conflict.” “Britain has always been a compassionate and welcoming country, and I am delighted that the government has finally, after months of pressure, committed to vital humanitarian aid.
(15) A high prevalence of iron deficiency was found in apparently healthy Asian immigrant children in Harrow.
(16) Perhaps the most harrowing part for Manchester City amid all the regrets and raw disappointment is the way large parts of this game seemed to pass them by.
(17) Some case notes make harrowing reading: cells occupied by disabled prisoners with no wall bars and inmates having to drag themselves across the floor and falling frequently; PAS "having to make a fuss" to get inmates supplied with basic needs, such as walking sticks, which are then taken away when a prisoner moves prison; and an incontinent prisoner with mental health problems sleeping naked on a urine-soaked mattress.
(18) Lorraine's life story reads like the harrowing epilogue to one of Dunbar's plays.
(19) Throughout this tournament, the striker with a bowl-cut straight out of Hull circa 1986 has lead the line superbly, made perceptive runs, found excellent scoring positions ... and squandered more opportunities than a boy who's been expelled from Eton, Harrow and every other fee-paying school in the land.
(20) The emir of Qatar , the world's richest country per capita, is poised to hand over power to his Harrow-educated son and heir in a rare peaceful transition for the tiny but globally influential Gulf state.
Rake
Definition:
(v. t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
(n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.
(n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
(n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
(v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
(v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.
(v. t.) To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.
(v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.
(v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.
(v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
(v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
(n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
(n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
(v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
(n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
(v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
(v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
Example Sentences:
(1) While they're raking in the money, he is broke and out of work.'
(2) Since his arrest, a French taboo has been broken and Strauss-Kahn's behaviour towards women, deemed "libertine" by his friends, has been raked over.
(3) Adam Lallana, Rickie Lambert and Dejan Lovren have all moved to Liverpool while Luke Shaw has signed for Manchester United and Arsenal have taken Calum Chambers to the Emirates Stadium, with Southampton raking in more than £88m for the combined deals.
(4) Sir Michael Rake, the chairman of easyJet, said: "Following a thorough process involving a number of high calibre candidates we have unanimously chosen a strong chief executive with the strategic ability, operational capability and passion to drive easyJet through the next stage of its development and we look forward to working with Carolyn."
(5) Anyone could be said to have made mistakes in hindsight and there was nothing to be gained in raking up the past.
(6) Milliken, author of a report on rhino-horn consumption in Vietnam , also expressed concerns about the end-user market: "One wonders if unscrupulous dealers in these markets will not simply employ some means to 'bleach' them to back to a 'normal' appearance and continue raking in high profits."
(7) 4 min: Another raking pass to Di Maria, who wins a penalty after smashing the ball against the hand of David Alaba.
(8) The muck-raking website Lifenews.ru, which has close links to the FSB, Putin’s former spy agency, has pointed the finger at Nemtsov’s colourful love life.
(9) Round K-wires with either a diamond point or a high rake-angle trocar point were compared with each other and with C-wires, which have a rounded square cross section and a short diamond point.
(10) I also present a method for teaching this system to residents that makes use of a piece of cotton or nylon rope, a cotton mop refill, and the end of a garden rake.
(11) Sturridge's wonderful change of pace saw him accelerating on to Gerrard's raking long pass down the right and, with the defence left standing, the on-rushing Uruguayan met Sturridge's ball across the six-yard box.
(12) The panel Tim Kelsey , national director for patients and information, NHS England Dr Chaand Nagpaul , GP and chair of the British Medical Association 's GP committee Gary Walker , former United Lincolnshire hospitals trust chief and whistleblower Ben Pathe , business development officer, Patient Opinion Roger Kline , director, Patients First Jo Bibby , director of strategy, Health Foundation Nick Chinn , co-founder of #WeNurses Dr Nicola Williams , deputy director of research, North Bristol NHS trust Katherine Rake , chief executive, Healthwatch England Dr Tom Kennedy , consultant physician and rheumatologist, Royal Liverpool University hospital
(13) From our investigations and research from elsewhere it appeared that the National Board of Health defines negligence as considerable error of judgement, or where examination or history raking, had been insufficient.
(14) Among an all-star cast, including Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and Shia LaBoeuf, Pearce still manages to stand out as Charlie Rakes, the special deputy from Chicago sent to Virginia to close down the sale of illegal liquor for good.
(15) As well as raking in the cash, Google is responsible for much of the infrastructure that delivers digital advertising.
(16) The British sent non-essential staff on the same route as the Americans but, lacking air cover, saw their Jeeps raked with gunfire and forced back.
(17) Haji-Ioannou and his easyGroup had instigated a series of "increasingly personalised attacks", Rake declared , "involving a number of inaccurate and misleading statements, including inappropriate and defamatory assertions and innuendo".
(18) While he gets his beard trimmed – a painstaking process that takes 45 minutes and involves an Afro comb the size of a garden rake – Rick dishes out a little parable about how to deal with paparazzi in light of Alec Baldwin's recent decision to quit public life (and New York) after one too many run-ins.
(19) Rake, married with four sons, keeps horses at his Oxfordshire home and has formed a polo team.
(20) When disaster duly strikes, and Lydia runs off with a notable rake to live in sin somewhere in London, he is powerless.