härva — meaning in English
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English meaning
- harrow noun A heavy farming tool with rows of spikes or discs, dragged over ploughed soil to break it up.
- skein noun A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
- tangle verb To twist together into a knotted, confused mass.
Senses
härva is used for these senses in English:
- harrow (transitive) To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.
- niddy-noddy A tool used to make skeins from yarn, consisting of a central bar with crossbars at each end, offset from each other by 90°.
- skein A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together in an oblong shape, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.
- tangle A tangled twisted mass.
- tangle A complicated or confused state or condition.
harrow — full definition
- noun A heavy farming tool with rows of spikes or discs, dragged over ploughed soil to break it up.
- verb To deeply upset or torment someone.
skein — full definition
- noun A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
- noun A thing resembling a skein (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) of thread, yarn, etc.
- noun The membrane of a fish ovary.
- noun A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.