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barrow

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[ bar-oh ]

noun

  1. a flat, rectangular frame used for carrying a load, especially such a frame with projecting shafts at each end for handles; handbarrow.
  2. British. a pushcart used by street vendors, especially by costermongers.


barrow

2

[ bar-oh ]

noun

  1. Archaeology. tumulus ( def 1 ).
  2. Chiefly British. a hill (sometimes used in combination):

    Trentishoe Barrow in North Devon; Whitbarrow in North Lancashire.

barrow

3

[ bar-oh ]

noun

  1. a castrated male swine.

Barrow

4

[ bar-oh ]

noun

  1. a seaport in Cumbria, in northwestern England. Also called 叠补谤路谤辞飞-颈苍-贵耻谤路苍别蝉蝉 [bar, -oh-in-, fur, -nis].
  2. Point Barrow, the northern tip of Alaska: the northernmost point of the U.S.
  3. a town in northern Alaska, south of Barrow Point: site of a government science-research center.

Barrow

1

/ 藞产忙谤蓹蕣 /

noun

  1. a river in SE Ireland, rising in the Slieve Bloom Mountains and flowing south to Waterford Harbour. Length: about 193 km (120 miles)
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

barrow

2

/ 藞产忙谤蓹蕣 /

noun

  1. Also calledbarrowful the amount contained in or on a barrow
  2. a handcart, typically having two wheels and a canvas roof, used esp by street vendors
  3. dialect.
    concern or business (esp in the phrases that's not my barrow , that's just my barrow )
  4. into one's barrow dialect.
    suited to one's interests or desires
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

barrow

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/ 藞产忙谤蓹蕣 /

noun

  1. a heap of earth placed over one or more prehistoric tombs, often surrounded by ditches. Long barrows are elongated Neolithic mounds usually covering stone burial chambers; round barrows are Bronze Age, covering burials or cremations
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

barrow

4

/ 藞产忙谤蓹蕣 /

noun

  1. a castrated pig
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of barrow1

First recorded 1300鈥50; Middle English bar(e)we, berwe, from unrecorded Old English bearwe; akin to Middle High German bere; bier, bear 1

Origin of barrow2

First recorded before 900; Middle English bergh, berg(e), berugh, bargh, Old English beorg, beorh 鈥渉ill, mound, mountain鈥; cognate with Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Dutch, Old High German berg 鈥渕辞耻苍迟补颈苍,鈥 Old Norse bjarg, berg 鈥渃濒颈蹿蹿,鈥 Armenian berdz height, Welsh bera 鈥渉eap鈥; akin to Avestan b蓹r蓹z-, b蓹r蓹zant-, Sanskrit 产峁沨谩苍迟- high. See borough

Origin of barrow3

First recorded before 1000; Middle English barwe, barowe, baruwe, Old English bearg, bearh, berg; cognate with Old High German barug, German Barch, Old Norse 产谦谤驳谤; bore 2, whose meaning is close to the semantics of cutting or splitting (referring to castration)
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of barrow1

Old English bearwe ; related to Old Norse barar bier , Old High German 产腻谤补

Origin of barrow2

Old English beorg ; related to Old Norse bjarg , Gothic bairgahei hill, Old High German berg mountain

Origin of barrow3

Old English bearg ; related to Old Norse 产枚谤驳谤 , Old High German barug
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Scheduled monument sites identified by Right to Roam campaigners as having no existing legal rights of way to them include hillforts, holy wells, henges and ancient burial mounds known as barrows.

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For hundreds of years, Norwegians thought they knew who or what had been interred in an enormous barrow on the island of Leka, which is just off the country鈥檚 northern coast, facing the Atlantic Ocean.

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Neolithic tools, Bronze Age barrows, an Iron Age settlement, a Roman villa and Saxon hamlet have all been discovered at Stanwick Lakes, making it one of the largest archaeological sites ever excavated in the UK.

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During his many trips to abandoned mines around mid Wales he has found a child's footprint, hobnail boots, tools, miners' gloves and a 170-year-old barrow "still where the miner originally left it".

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The family scraped a living selling vegetables from barrows.

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