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▪ I. farrow, n.|ˈfærəʊ|
Also 1 faerh, fearh, 3 far, 8–9 dial farry. Cf. fare n.2
[OE. fearh str. masc. corresp. to OS. *farh (whence diminutive MLG. ferken, Du. varken), OHG. farh, farah (MHG. varch; diminutive OHG. farhelîn, MHG. verkel, mod.G. ferkel):—OTeut. *farho-z boar:—pre-Teut. *porkos = Gr. πόρκος, L. porcus: see pork.]
†1. A young pig. Obs.
a700Epinal Gloss. 811 Porcellus, faerh. a1100Ags. Voc. in Wr. Wülcker 321 Porcellus, fearh. c1300K. Alis. 2441 Heo..flodeden, so faren in feld.
transf.1820Byron Morg. Mag. lxiii, Another, to revenge his fellow farrow, Against the giant rush'd.
2. An act or instance of farrowing. [Properly another word; f. the vb.]
1601Holland Pliny I. 229 One sow may bring at one farrow twenty pigges. 1869Daily News 8 Dec., Mr. Lynn and his man..proved the dates of the farrows.
3. Hence concr. A litter of pigs; occas. in sing. (after Shakespeare) with numeral to indicate the number of young.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 149 b, If you will have two farrowes in one yeere. 1605Shakes. Macb. iv. i. 65 Powre in Sowes blood, that hath eaten Her nine Farrow. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 519 The Lavinians were much troubled about the signification of such a monstrous farrow. 1787Hunter in Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 236 In that time she had eight farrows..and had in all seventy-six pigs. 1826in Sheridaniana 313 A fine Chinese sow and nine farrow. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. xvii, Two farrows of pigs ready for the chapman.
4. Of the sow: in farrow or with farrow: with young.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 150 So shall the damme . bee sooner with farrowe againe. 1884Farm & Home 25 Oct. 275/2 Boars do not usually pay much attention to sows in farrow.
5. attrib., as farrow-sow.
1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. xxi. 182 She rides upon a farrow-sow.
▪ II. farrow, a. Chiefly Sc.|ˈfærəʊ|
Forms: 5 Sc. ferow, 6–8 Sc. furrow, 7– farrow.
[Of unknown derivation; farrow cow corresponds formally to Flemish verwekoe, varwekoe (De Bo), in 16th c. ‘verrekoe, taura’ (Kilian), which means a cow that has ceased to be capable of producing offspring.]
Of a cow: That is not with calf (see quots.). Also in to be farrow, go farrow or run farrow. farrow-farrow, barren in two successive seasons.
1494Act. Dom. Conc. 363 Twa ferow ky. 15..Depredations in Argyll 51 (Jam.) Sex furrow cows. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 173/2 A Farrow Cow is a Cow that gives Milk in the second year after her Calving, having no Calf that year. 1725Ramsay Gent. Sheph. iii. iii, My faulds contain twice fifteen furrow nowt. 1856Aird Poet. Wks. 193 Farrow, ill-haired, and lean. 1879Mem. Ochiltree 52 If the same animal had no calf the following year, she was farrow-farrow.
fig.1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 19 Whatever is big with or positive of eternity, cannot go farrow, or be privative of real entity.
▪ III. farrow, v.|ˈfærəʊ|
Forms: 4–6 Sc. ferrie. (6 farowe), 7–9 dial. farry, 4– farrow. Also 3 iveruwe, 4 yvarȝe; and see fare v.2
[f. farrow n.]
1. trans. Of a sow: To bring forth (young).
a1225Ancr. R. 204 Þus beoð þeos pigges iueruwed. 1513Douglas æneis iii. vi. 72 A grete sow fereit of grysis thretty heid. 1614Markham Cheap Husb. (1623) 126 Many Sowes..will deuoure their Pigges when they haue farro'd them. 1760Goldsm. Cit. W. lviii, A sow..farrowed fifteen pigs at a litter. 1828–40Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 137 The English sow had farrowed her pigs.
fig.1823Lamb Lett. (1888) II. 60 If Evelyn could have seen him, he would never have farrowed two such prodigious volumes.
2. intr. To produce a litter.
1340Ayenb. 61 Þe zoȝe huanne hi heþ yuarȝed wel bleþeliche byt men ycloþed mid huyt. 1375Barbour Bruce xvii. 701 On the wallis thai can cry, ‘That thair sow ferryit wes thair!’ 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 342 For that same sow I haif ordand sic draf..Sall gar hir ferrie sone at the midsyde. 1601Holland Pliny viii. li. 229 Swine..farrow commonly twice a yeere. a1658Ford, etc. Witch Edmonton v. ii, To cast her Pigs a day before she would have farried. 1727Swift Baucis & Philemon, Thought whose sow had farrow'd last. 1838–42Arnold Hist. Rome I. i. 2 She laid down and farrowed, and her litter was of thirty young ones.
†b. Of other animals. (See also farrowing ppl. a.). Obs. rare.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, La Muette..the place where a Hare doth farrow.
Hence ˈfarrowed, ˈfarrowing ppl. adjs., ˈfarrowing vbl. n. Also attrib.
1583Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 83 Her mylckwhit farroed hoglings. 1510–20Compl. too late maryed (1862) 8 A farrowynge bytche. 1398Trevisa Barth De P.R. xix. lxiii. (1495) 899 A sowe is moost thicke in farowynge tyme. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 149 b, Her farrowing times are so divided for the nonce. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 518 Barly..at the farrowing causeth an easie and safe pigging. |