Furrow vs Burrow - What's the difference?
furrow | burrow |
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.
A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
(mining) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
A mound.
An incorporated town.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between furrow and burrow
is that furrow is a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop while burrow is a tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.As verbs the difference between furrow and burrow
is that furrow is to make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc.) while burrow is to dig a tunnel or hole.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 furrowburrow
English
Noun
(en noun)- But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels' for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the ' burrows the real rabbits lived in.