- a long narrow cut in the ground, especially one made by a plough for planting seeds in
- dark ploughed earth, with white chalk in the furrows
- Truck wheels had dug furrows in the track.
- Water lay in the furrows of the ploughed fields.
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- a deep line in the skin of the face
- Suddenly he looked tired and there were deep furrows in his brow.
Word OriginOld English furh, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch voor and German Furche, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin porca ‘ridge between furrows’.
Idioms
See furrow in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryplough a lonely, your own, etc., furrow
- (literary) to do things that other people do not do, or be interested in things that other people are not interested in
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