furrowing

English

Verb

furrowing

1. present participle and gerund of furrow

Noun

furrowing (plural furrowings)

1. A furrowed pattern.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter X, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 54:

     On his bleached worn face are ploughed the furrowings of one hundred and twenty years.