Lake vs Harrow - What's the difference?
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A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
A large, landlocked stretch of water.
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A large amount of liquid; as , a wine lake.
* 1991 , (Robert DeNiro) (actor), :
(obsolete) To present an offering.
(chiefly, dialectal) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
To make lake-red.
(obsolete) To play; to sport.
A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow.
* 1918 , Louise & Aylmer Maude, trans. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina , Oxford 1998, p. 153:
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* 1969 , Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather , Heinemann 1995, p. 28:
(military) An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.
* Bible, Job xxxix. 10
* 1719
To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment.
To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.
* Rowe
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
As nouns the difference between lake and harrow
is that lake is , valley while harrow is a device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow.As a verb harrow is
to drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.As an interjection harrow is
(obsolete) a call for help, or of distress, alarm etc.lake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Despite their similarity in form and meaning, (etyl) lake is not related to (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before'' or ''after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* ephemeral lake * Great Lakes * Lake District * Lakes * lakeness * oxbow lakeSee also
* billabong * lagoon * pond * tarnReferences
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From (etyl) lake, lak, lac (also loke, laik, layke), from (etyl) .Derived terms
* bridelock * wedlockVerb
(lak)Etymology 3
From (etyl) lachenEtymology 4
From (etyl) , referring to the number of insects that gather on the trees and make the resin seep out.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* lake-redVerb
(lak)Etymology 5
Compare lek.Verb
(lak)Anagrams
* kale * leak English terms with multiple etymologies ----harrow
English
Etymology 1
Either representing unattested (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He sent for the carpenter, who was under contract to be with the threshing-machine, but it turned out that he was mending the harrows , which should have been mended the week before Lent.
- Part of your job would be to learn tractor ploughing and the use of planters, harrows , and cultivators.
See also
*Verb
(en verb)- Will he harrow the valleys after thee?
- When the corn was sown, I had no harrow, but was forced to go over it myself, and drag a great heavy bough of a tree over it, to scratch it, as it may be called, rather than rake or harrow it.
- The headless horseman harrowed Ichabod Crane as he tried to reach the bridge.
- my aged muscles harrowed up with whips
- I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul.
Derived terms
* harrowing * Harrowing of HellEtymology 2
From (etyl) haro, harou, of uncertain origin.Interjection
(en interjection)- Harrow , the flames, which me consume (said hee) / Ne can be quencht, within my secret bowels bee.