A furrow is the visible track left as the plough turns earth, creating ordered lines across a field. It is both a practical feature of cultivation and a strong poetic image of division, direction, and effort. Furrows may suggest readiness for seed, the scars of labour, or the passage of time across land and faces. Poets often compare wrinkles to furrows, and they use the straight or curving line of ploughed soil to connect human toil with cycles of death, burial, germination, and renewal.

A furrow is the trench or groove made by a plough, often forming a repeated line across cultivated ground. It may hold seed, guide irrigation, or assist drainage. In poetry, furrows can symbolise preparation, burial, ordered labour, or scars cut into the earth. Wrinkles are often compared with furrows, linking the aged human face to long agricultural toil. Related terms include plough, ridge, seed, sowing, tillage, field, drainage, and seedbed.