barrow
IPA: bˈæroʊ
noun
- (obsolete) A mountain.
- (chiefly Britain) A hill.
- A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
- (mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
- (Britain) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
- (saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
- (obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.
- A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
- A surname.
- Former name of Utqiagvik, the borough seat of North Slope Borough, Alaska, renamed in 2016.
- An unincorporated community in Greene County, Illinois.
- One of a few villages in England.
- A village and civil parish (served by Barrow cum Denham Parish Council) in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL7663).
- A civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, which includes the settlements of Great Barrow and Little Barrow.
- A town in Cumbria, England (properly Barrow-in-Furness).
- A river in eastern Ireland.
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Examples of "barrow" in Sentences
- A barrow boy is a market trader.
- Barrow was familiar with the area.
- The barrow also contained valuables.
- He was buried in a barrow by the sea.
- It may be an ancient barrow or tumulus.
- It is someone pushing a particular barrow.
- Barrow was then confronted by the local law.
- The barrow was surrounded by a stone circle.
- The barrow is built on the location of the pyre.
- The man who wheeled the barrow was the world-famous Blondin.
- He was wheeling a barrow and in the barrow was the Christmas tree.
- This is a Disquisition on the Lows or Barrows in the Peak of Derbyshire.
- In the barrow was a 6-year-old boy covered by a thin cloth from the waist down.
- That pig then became a "barrow" - the Floridians pronounced it more like "bear".
- The barrow is short, with its wheel well placed under the load which may be stacked high.
- When the barrow was a stone structure, the enclosure was usually a circle of standing stones.
- In the course of their struggle to lift the rock into a wheel-barrow the wheel broke and the barrow was a wreck.
- An interesting example of the great timber-chambered barrow is that at Jelling in Jutland, known as the barrow of Thyre Danebod, queen of King Gorm the Old, who died about the middle of the 10th century.
- In the morning after his breakfast he came to me, and without giving me any breakfast, tied me to a large heavy barrow, which is usually drawn by a horse, and made me drag it to the cotton field for the horse to use in the field.
- Indeed there will be life after Labour ... but, Ah! do I long for the day that they are consigned to their rightful place in our society - namely a barrow in the provincial market places, somewhere between the stalls of the SWP and the peddlers of aromatherapy, crystaltherapy and diverse other new-age remedies and accoutrements. phil