furrowers

Row-cutting farm tools

Furrowers are tools, machines, or people that make furrows—long narrow trenches in soil for planting seeds or drainage.

In agriculture, a furrower attachment on a plow or tractor cuts parallel grooves across a field: The furrowers prepared neat rows for the potato crop.

Figuratively, anything that creates groove-like lines: Years of worry had made furrowers of his expressions.

agriculture

tractor

Agricultural pulling vehicle

seeder · disk · chisel · moldboard · harrow · subsoiler · seedbed · ridging · fieldwork · scarifier

burrowing

mole

Subterranean insectivore

aardvark · groundhog · rabbit · rodent · shrew · vole · tunneling · digging · burrow · warren

earthmoving

excavator

Machine that digs earth

grader · scraper · dragline · dredger · earthmover · crawler · ditcher

soil

topsoil

Nutrient-rich surface earth

  • humusDecayed organic soil matter
  • loamFertile soil mixture
  • siltWaterborne earth particles

clay · seedbed · friable · clod · drainage · aeration · compaction

Opposites
agricultural cycle stage

furrowersharvesters

Those who gather crops

reapers · gatherers · pickers · gleaners · threshers

soil action

furrowerslevelers

Those who flatten hierarchies

smoothers · fillers · rollers · graders · compactors

Phrases
Family

furrowed, furrower

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G