## Meanings
1. A heavy farm tool dragged across ploughed land to break up and smooth the soil.
2. To cause someone great distress or suffering.
3. To break up soil by dragging a harrow over it.

## Examples
- The farmer pulled a harrow over the field to prepare it for planting.
- The images of the disaster harrowed everyone who saw them.
- He harrowed the valley before sowing the seeds.

## Derived Forms
- harrower
- harrowing
- rest-harrow
- restharrow
- upharrow

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: harwe
- Root: *hearwa
- Root: harfr
- Root: hergian

## Etymology
From Middle English harwe, harow, from Old English *hearwa (perhaps ultimately cognate with harvest), or from Old Norse harfr/herfi; compare Danish harve (“harrow”), Dutch hark (“rake”). Akin to Latin carpere. According to the OED, the verb senses are partly derived from the noun sense, partly from a by-form of the verb harry, itself from Old English hergian.

## AI Etymology
Harrow comes from Middle English harwe, harow, from Old English *hearwa (perhaps ultimately cognate with harvest), or from Old Norse harfr/herfi; compare Danish harve (“harrow”), Dutch hark (“rake”). Akin to Latin carpere. According to the OED, the verb senses are partly derived from the noun sense, partly from a by-form of the verb harry, itself from Old English hergian. In current use, the main senses are “A heavy farm tool dragged across ploughed land to break up and smooth the soil” and “To cause someone great distress or suffering”.

## Topics
- Space, Position & Direction
- Plants & Agriculture

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