FURROWING

Definition: FURROWING

FURROWING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Furrow

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "FURROWING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references)

Crosswords: FURROWING

Specialty definitions using "FURROWING": balic, basin listing, box-ridge ♦ Nails, Malformed ♦ tie-ridge. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Furrowing against the wind to check the drift of sand. Dust Bowl, north of Dalhart, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"FURROWING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FURROWING" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	100%	3	202,518

Language		Translations for "FURROWING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		犁 (furrowed, Plow, Plowed, Plowing). (various references)

Danish		segmentationsdeling (equal furrowing, equation), daekorganer og dybdekontrol holder saaskaeret i en ensartet arbejdsdybde (coverers and depth control to level furrowing depth of the drill coulter). (various references)

Dutch		toestrijkers en een diepgangregeling zorgen voor een gelijkmatige werkdiepte van de vorentrekker (coverers and depth control to level furrowing depth of the drill coulter), gelijke segmentatie (equal furrowing, equation). (various references)

French		segmentation (equal furrowing), les dispositifs de recouvrement et de réglage de la profondeur d'enfouissement des graines assurent un terrage uniforme des socs (coverers and depth control to level furrowing depth of the drill coulter). (various references)

German		pflügend (ploughing). (various references)

Greek		οι διατάξεις επικάλυψης και ρύθμισης του βάθους ενταφιασμού των σπόρων,εξασφαλίζουν το ομοιόμορφο βάθος κατεργασίας από τα υνία (coverers and depth control to level furrowing depth of the drill coulter). (various references)

Hebrew		תלום. (various references)

Italian		i dispositivi di ricoprimento e di regolazione dell'interramento dei grani assicurano un abbassamento uniforme degli assolcatori (coverers and depth control to level furrowing depth of the drill coulter). (various references)

Pig Latin		urrowingfay

Portuguese		os dispositivos de cobertura e de regulação da profundidade de enterramento dos grãos asseguram um trabalho uniforme das relhas (coverers and depth control to level furrowing depth of the drill coulter). (various references)

Spanish		segmentación (segmentation). (various references)

Ukrainian		борознування. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"FURROWING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Currawong, ferrozine, furrown. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-g-i-n-o-r-r-u-w"
	-2 letters: furring.
	-3 letters: furrow, rigour, rowing.
	-4 letters: frown, fugio, fungi, fungo, furor, giron, gonif, groin, grown, guiro, owing, rigor, ruing, unrig, wring, wrong, wrung.
	-5 letters: fino, firn, foin, four, frig, frog, frow, frug, girn, giro, gown, grin, grow, info, inro, iron, noir, nori, ring, ruin, rung, wing, wino, worn.
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