furrow

Universal Words noun, verb noun 1 a long narrow cut in the ground, especially one made by a PLOUGH for planting seeds in: dark ploughed earth, with white chalk in the furrows * Truck wheels had dug furrows in the track. 2 a deep line in the skin of the face: Suddenly he looked tired and there were deep furrows in his brow. IDIOMS see PLOUGHv. verb 1 [VN] to make a furrow in the earth: furrowed fields 2 [V, VN] (written) if your BROWS or EYEBROWS furrow or are furrowed, you pull them together, usually because you are worried, and so produce lines on your face