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a line carved by intention, whether in soil or in a worried brow
means A long, narrow groove or trench, especially one cut into the earth by a plough, or a deep wrinkle of the kind that appears on a concentrating or anxious face.
from From Old English 'furh,' a trench or groove in the ground, with cousins across the Germanic languages — Old Norse 'for,' Dutch 'voor,' German 'Furche.' Many trace it further back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to dig' or 'cut,' a possible distant relative of Latin 'porca,' the ridge between two plough-trenches. The leap from soil to forehead is purely human: a brow creased by thought looked, to early speakers, exactly like a field worked over by worry.
- plow origin
- Old English word for a trench cut by plowing
- brow furrows
- same word names the wrinkle of deep thought
- contour farming
- curved furrows fight erosion on sloped land
- furlong link
- the unit meant length of one furrow
- seed homes
- crops are dropped precisely into furrow bottoms
appalachian coal mine furrows — extensive strip mining creating parallel grooves visible from space across eastern kentucky and west virginia
contour plowing furrows — erosion-prevention technique creating curved furrow lines on hillsides, widely adopted in american dust bowl recovery 1930s