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härva — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • harrow noun A heavy farming tool with rows of spikes or discs, dragged over plowed soil to break it up.
  • skein noun A loosely wound coil of thread or yarn, gathered together after being taken off a reel.
  • 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

  1. noun A heavy farming tool with rows of spikes or discs, dragged over plowed soil to break it up.
  2. verb To deeply upset or torment someone.

skein — full definition

  1. noun A loosely wound coil of thread or yarn, gathered together after being taken off a reel.
  2. noun Something shaped like a loosely wound coil of thread or yarn.
  3. noun The thin covering surrounding the eggs inside a fish.
  4. noun A group of wild birds, such as geese, flying together.
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