draw a straight furrow
English
Verb
draw a straight furrow
- To live correctly, without deviating from the right line of duty.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Lowell to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for draw a straight furrow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)