The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word HARROW
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More clues leading to the result HARROW
- Curtailed complex argument in school
- Public school, distress!
- Public school distress
- Where Winston Churchill was taught to break up ploughed land
- Where to learn to move the earth?
- Agricultural tool with hard shaft
- School torment
- Hospital appears on direction indicator in London
- Husband with pointer to use agricultural tool
- Plough – heaven’s first pointer
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The straight part
We know that "School/that’s dragged through the dirt" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case school/that’s dragged through the dirt = harrow.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does HARROW mean?
HARROW noun- A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow.
- An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
- To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.
- To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment.
- To break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.
- A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc.