farrow
IPA: fˈɛroʊ
noun
- A litter of piglets.
- A surname.
- A former community in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.
verb
- To give birth to a (litter of piglets).
adjective
- (of cows) Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren.
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Examples of "farrow" in Sentences
- With Sy being a vegetarian and Howard Jewish, the pig was sure to live a long life unlike his farrow.
- I remember as kid eating farrow porridge for breakfast.. and I got some spelt berries and cooked them and was like..
- Director Roman Polanski hit the zietgeist with this psychological horror classic, in which Mia farrow gives birth to the spawn of Satan.
- And Wendell Davison of Garner grow from a 150-sow, farrow-to-finish operation to 11,000 finishing spaces, over his neighbors 'objections.
- His earlier description of Ireland, "the old sow that eats her farrow," is acted out in the Circe's disorderly house, where men are figuratively turned into swine.
- In my book Animal Factory, I write about how farmers in Sweden have developed humane ways for pregnant sows to gestate and "farrow" -- or give birth and nurse their young.
- The facility, owned by Agrivest Inc., the largest farrow to finish hog producer in Montgomery County which produces more than 100,000 hogs annually, is still in operation.
- Senator Luther Christopher Tucker, Sr., was a member of the Pork Chop Gang, a farrow of rural legislators, in the ′50s and ′60s who took up a disproportionate amount of space at the public trough.
- So far, it has helped farmer Andy Muff of Ventura convert his family's small farrow-to-finish farm to a contract finishing operation replete with a 1,000-head "confinement nursery" and an additional 3,000 pig spaces.
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