Noun: furrow
| Singular | furrow |
| Plural | furrows |
Sample Sentences
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Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.
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The family feeling was intensified as we stopped to speak to mothers in the cottage gardens, or waved to distant tractors turning over chocolate-brown furrows and driven by 'my dad' or 'my Uncle Bob'. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217:]
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When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.
Nouns inflected like furrow
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar̃šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit पर्शान (párśāna, “chasm”). See: Old English Nouns '
furh', Dutch Nouns '
voor', German Nouns '
Furche', Swedish Nouns '
fåra', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
fure', Latin Nouns '
porca'.
Verbs referencing "furrow"
Galician Nouns
forra.