Furrow vs Brook - What's the difference?
furrow | brook |
A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
To make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc.).
To wrinkle
To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc.
To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
To earn; deserve.
(label) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object ).
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=6, title= * 2005 , Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World , Harper:
A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
*Bible, (w) viii. 7
*:The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
*
*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
A water meadow.
Low, marshy ground.
As a noun furrow
is a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.As a verb furrow
is to make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc).As a proper noun brook is
for someone living by a brook .furrow
English
(Plough)Noun
(en noun)- Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.
- When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.
Verb
(en verb)- Cart wheels can furrow roads.
- Leave me alone so I can furrow my brows and concentrate.
See also
* plough a lonely furrowbrook
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
- Nevertheless, Garcilaso does claim that the Spaniards ‘who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians’.
