| 词汇 | harrow |
| 释义 | harrow noun[ C ] uk /ˈhær.əʊ/ us /ˈher.oʊ/ a large piece of equipment that is pulled behind a tractor (= a farm vehicle) to break the earth into small pieces ready for planting耙 VR_Studio/iStock Editorial/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Farm vehicles & equipment all-terrain vehicle ATV binder Caterpillar tractor combine goad harvester milker milking machine planter plough ploughshare reaper scarecrow seeder sifter sorter spreader tractor yoke harrow verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈhær.əʊ/ us /ˈher.oʊ/ to use a large piece of equipment that is pulled behind a tractor (= a farm vehicle) to break the earth into small pieces ready for planting: roughly ploughed and harrowed land The ploughman harrows and sows, and then waits for the harvest. Good ground preparation, harrowing, and ploughing are always needed The crop requires land to be harrowed and drilled in July. A light harrowing of the seed bed in late summer is advisable. Farming - general words agricultural extension agroecology agroforestry biodynamic cultivate emergence homestead hydroponic hydroponically inorganically landrace maincrop reap the Agrarian Revolution thrash U-pick unharvested unsown untillable untilled Examples of harrowharrow This harrowing perspective compels the reader to ask whether the earlier stories of local ingenuity will be enough in the face of this catastrophe. To reduce compaction of moist soil and obviate the need for harrowing to level the fields, controlled traffic is being introduced in rice-wheat systems. Crop residues were incorporated using a hand tractor with a spiketooth harrow during land preparation for rice transplanting. This means that these labourers used human energy to harrow their plots. The spring-tine harrow is a semi-mounted operating machine with the same working width as the above-described strip. Weeds were controlled in the organic system with occasional light harrowing once per year immediately prior to crop emergence. This forces farmers to disc harrow once or twice before establishing a wheat crop, in order to level the soil. In the spring of 2004, the land was cultivated and harrowed prior to planting. Both these were unspecialised implements in 1850 but harrows diversified substantially afterwards. All crop residues were incorporated using a hand tractor with a spike-tooth harrow. The tillage treatment was a tractor-drawn cultivator followed by disc harrow. One only needs to mention one harrowing example to illustrate the point. In 2000, the organic plots were tilled with a spring tooth harrow prior to flag leaf emergence to control in-crop weeds. The final act is harrowing for precisely this reason, this transformation in our perceptions. However, the nature of the sample was such that all the participants had complex, often chaotic, biographies, and the stories they told were often harrowing. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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