Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hill or mountain: originally applied to hills or mountains of any height, even the greatest, but later restricted to lower elevations. In this sense the word survives only in provincial use or as a part of local names in England.
- noun A mound; a heap. In particular A mound of earth or stones raised over a grave; a sepulchral mound; a tumulus.
- noun A burrow or warren. See
burrow , berry. - To wheel or convey in a barrow: as, to
barrow coal in a pit. - noun A frame used by two or more men in carrying a load; formerly, any such frame, as a stretcher or bier; specifically, a flat rectangular frame of bars or boards, with projecting shafts or handles (in England called
trams ) at both ends, by which it is carried: usually called a hand-barrow. - noun A similar frame, generally used in the form of a shallow box with either flaring or upright sides, and supported in front formerly by two wheels, now by a single small wheel inserted between the front shafts, and pushed by one man, who supports the end opposite to the wheel by means of the rear shafts: usually called a wheelbarrow.
- noun A frame or box of larger size, resting on an axle between two large wheels, and pushed or pulled by means of shafts at one end; a hand-cart: as, a costermonger's barrow.
- noun A barrowful; the load carried in or on a barrow.
- noun In salt-works, a wicker case in which the salt is put to drain.
- noun The egg-case of a skate or a ray: so called from its resemblance to a hand-barrow.
- noun A castrated boar. Also called
barrow-pig or barrow-hog. - noun A wood or grove: a word surviving only in English local names, as Barrow-in-Furness, Barrowfield.
- noun Same as
barrow-coat .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See
handbarrow , andwheelbarrow . - noun (Salt Works) A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.
- noun A hog, esp. a male hog castrated.
- noun A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
- noun (Mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
castrated boar . - noun A small
vehicle used tocarry aload andpulled orpushed by hand . - noun obsolete A
mountain . - noun chiefly UK A
hill . - noun A
mound ofearth andstones raised over agrave or graves. - noun mining A
heap ofrubbish ,attle , or other suchrefuse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels
- noun the quantity that a barrow will hold
- noun (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
Etymologies
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Examples
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The barrow is short, with its wheel well placed under the load which may be stacked high.
Chapter 10 1984
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That pig then became a "barrow" - the Floridians pronounced it more like "bear".
Custom Search 2009
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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
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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In the course of their struggle to lift the rock into a wheel-barrow the wheel broke and the barrow was a wreck.
The Road Leads On 2003
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He was wheeling a barrow and in the barrow was the Christmas tree.
Tied Up in Tinsel Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1972
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When the barrow was a stone structure, the enclosure was usually a circle of standing stones.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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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.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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The man who wheeled the barrow was the world-famous Blondin.
In the Footprints of the Padres Charles Warren Stoddard 1876
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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.
Moses Roper. A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of MosesRoper, from American Slavery. 1838
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In the barrow was a 6-year-old boy covered by a thin cloth from the waist down.
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"They covered the body of Achilles with wonderful raiment and over it they lamented for seventeen days and seventeen nights. On the eighteenth day he was laid in the grave beside Patroklos, his dear friend, and over them both the Greeks raised a barrow that was wondered at in the after-times."
- Padraic Colum, 'The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy'.
September 19, 2009