Barrow1
/ˈberō
/A city in north central Alaska, a commercial center on the Arctic Ocean. It is the northernmost US city; population 4,010 (est. 2008). Nearby Point Barrow is the northernmost point in the US.
barrow2
/ˈbarəʊ
/noun British
1A two-wheeled handcart used especially by street vendors: they sell fruit from market barrows...
- These were all purchased from street barrows when second-hand books were sold at a cost of about sixpence each.
- Sold from just about every avenue one could imagine (from shops to basements to barrows in the street), the drink played into the prevalent violence and insecurity in a dramatic and disastrous way.
- He came to a corner, but she was lost in the crowd around a line of street barrows selling clothing and a little food.
1.1A wheelbarrow.She gathered two stacks of hay into a wheelbarrow and pushed the barrow to the stall that was vacant....
- Hundreds of navigators, ‘navvies,’ were employed to dig the canals with only spades, picks, barrows and horse and cart.
- Ireland's popular gardener Gerry Daly dispensed barrows and pots full of helpful information for all types of gardens in a varied and interesting talk in Abbeyleix, Manor Hotel on Thursday last March 23.
Origin
Old English bearwe 'stretcher, bier', of Germanic origin; related to bear1.
Rhymes
barrow3
/ˈbarəʊ/noun Archaeology
An ancient burial mound.Across Britain and Ireland there are thousands of Iron Age barrows and burial mounds, and hundreds of Iron Age hill forts....
- In prehistoric Britain early agricultural communities deposited their dead in communal, highly visible locations such as chambered tombs, barrows and burial cairns.
- With its prehistoric burial mounds, barrows and encampments, its feudal laws and time-trapped settlements, the New Forest is anything but.
Origin
Old English beorg, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch berg, German Berg 'hill, mountain'.
barrow4
/ˈberō/noun
A male pig castrated before maturity.Mackenzie Langemeier won the honor of grand champion Duroc barrow with her 259-pound pig named Rocky. The barrow was purchased from Kent Brattain....
- Members who weigh and tag their pigs from March 31 - April 7 may show one derby pen of three, one derby gilt and one derby barrow.
- Many people recommend a spayed sow for the poor, but I always recommend a barrow pig.