Lexicographical Neighbors of Harrowers
Literary usage of Harrowers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Lands and Their Owners in Galloway: With Historical Sketches by Peter Handyside M'Kerlie (1906)
"... two plough-gangs, four couple of horses and harrowers one dav, six shearers
one day in harvest, six hens, ..."
2. English Farming Past & Present by Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1917)
"Here also harrowers seem to have been sometimes specially hired. In this case
they possibly provided their own home-constructed impleme^fe with sharp points ..."
3. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... some are harrowing in, some are gathering and laying up the riches; so you
may see, here are merchants, ploughmen, harrowers, weeders, reapers, ..."
4. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... harrowers, weeders, reapers, threshers in God's vineyard, yet none are to find
fault one with another, but every one labouring in their places, ..."
5. A History of the Theories of Production and Distribution in English by Edwin Cannan (1903)
"They generally, too, work a good deal with their own hands as ploughmen, harrowers,
etc. What remains of the crop, after paying the rent, therefore, ..."
6. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: In Two Volumes by Adam Smith, Ernest Belfort Bax (1892)
"They generally too work a good deal with their own hands, as ploughmen, harrowers,
&c. What remains of the crop after paying the rent, therefore, ..."
7. A History of the English Agricultural Labourer by Wilhelm Hasbach (1908)
"... being unable to find employment for their special skill throughout the year
in any one place, were migratory. Such, however, were the harrowers, ..."
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