transitive. To make gutters in; to furnish with gutters; to channel or furrow with streams, tears, or the like.

To groove, hollow out, incise. Also absol.

transitive. To form channels in; to wear or cut into channels; to furrow, groove, flute. Also: to run through, down, etc., in or as though in…

transitive. To channel, flute, furrow.

To form flutes (flute, n.1 4 5) in; to furnish with flutings; to arrange a dress, etc. in flutes.

In extended uses. transitive. To furrow (a surface) with a ploughing action; to tear, scratch up, as if by ploughing. Often with up (see also to plou…

transitive. To mark (a surface) with lines or indentations; to furrow. Said of a river, chasm, line of railway, etc. as marking the face of the earth.

transitive. To make a trench, gash, or furrow in (something); to furrow. Now rare.

To make furrow-like depressions, indentations, or channels in. Also with up.

figurative (with the surface cut or furrowed as object)

transitive. To cut a groove or grooves in; to provide with grooves. (Also with out.) to groove into: to fit into by means of a groove.

transitive. To mark or score with striæ, to furrow, streak. Also figurative.

transitive. Architecture. To furnish (a moulding) with a quirk (quirk, n.1 9); to make a groove in (a moulding, etc.). Chiefly in passive.

To finish (a surface) with grooves or ridges (see quots.). Also absol.

transitive. To form a groove in.