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1918, Louise & Aylmer Maude, Anna Karenina, Oxford, translation of original by Leo Tolstoy, published 1998, page 153:
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.
“It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.”
1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann, published 1995, page 28:
Part of your job would be to learn tractor ploughing and the use of planters, harrows, and cultivators.
(military) An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
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.
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