furrow

Meanings

Noun

• A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
• Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
• A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.

Verb

• To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).
• To wrinkle.
• To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.

Origin

• From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-.
• Compare Welsh rhych ("furrow"), Latin porca ("ridge, balk"), Lithuanian prapar̃šas ("ditch"), Sanskrit पर्शान ("chasm").