Emily Dickinson Lexicon

furrow, n. [OE.]

1. Dell; dip; little vale; small ripple in the earth; [fig.] minor thing.
2. Row; seam; crease; line for sewing together material; [fig.] line of verse; phrase in poetic composition.
3. Ripple; wrinkle; trail; track; groove; trench for planting seed in a field; channel in the earth that a farmer digs with a plow; [fig.] outline of a recent burial in a graveyard; [metaphor] word; verbal expression; line of verse; sound waves of speech; [metonymy] stratocumulus cloud cover; linear pattern of sunset light and clouds.