barrow
1a wheelbarrow.
a flat, rectangular frame used for carrying a load, especially such a frame with projecting shafts at each end for handles; handbarrow.
British. a pushcart used by street vendors, especially by costermongers.
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Archaeology. tumulus (def. 1).
Chiefly British. a hill (sometimes used in combination): Trentishoe Barrow in North Devon; Whitbarrow in North Lancashire.
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a castrated male swine.
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a seaport in Cumbria, in northwestern England.: Also called Bar·row-in-Fur·ness [bar-oh-in-fur-nis]. /ˈbær oʊ ɪnˈfɜr nɪs/.
Point Barrow, the northern tip of Alaska: the northernmost point of the U.S.
a town in northern Alaska, south of Barrow Point: site of a government science-research center.
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How to use barrow in a sentence
Doug Groothuis, who was 11 at the time, remembers being in his bedroom that November 1968 night and watching Walter Cronkite mention his father by name in a CBS Evening News report on the fatal accident in barrow, now known as Utqiagvik.
Searching for Solutions to Alaska’s High Rate of Deadly Air Crashes | by Zoë Sobel, KUCB, and Agnel Philip, ProPublica | September 21, 2021 | ProPublicaShe jokingly calls barrow her “husband” and makes fun of him for falling asleep in meetings.
Lincoln Davis and John barrow and Larry Kissell and Travis Childers and on and on it went.
In Republican election committees on the Hill, “barrow” had become a dirty word said only in hushed tones.
How House Dems Lost Their Last Southern White Guy | James Richardson | November 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJohn barrow, who lost on Tuesday, is the last white Democratic congressman in the Deep South.
How House Dems Lost Their Last Southern White Guy | James Richardson | November 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
This one, attacking Georgia Democrat John barrow, is probably touching on a real issue.
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The Stacks: The Day Lou Gehrig Delivered Baseball’s Gettysburg Address | Ray Robinson | July 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe organ is the gift of Mrs. James barrow and cost (without cases) about $90,000.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerAt the top of the boulevard there was a barrow of flowers drawn up alongside the kerb.
Marguerite | Anatole FranceUpon leaving the Commissary, our wheel-barrow was again put in motion, and accompanied us to Dessein's.
I dare say it is all pretty green, but that is no reason for us to fill the barrow with trash.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonHot and pleasantly tired, we packed up the tools on the barrow, and wheeled them to the shed.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard Eaton
British Dictionary definitions for barrow (1 of 4)
/ (ˈbærəʊ) /
See wheelbarrow, handbarrow
Also called: barrowful the amount contained in or on a barrow
mainly British a handcart, typically having two wheels and a canvas roof, used esp by street vendors
Northern English dialect concern or business (esp in the phrases that's not my barrow, that's just my barrow)
into one's barrow Irish and Scot dialect suited to one's interests or desires
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/ (ˈbærəʊ) /
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
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/ (ˈbærəʊ) /
a castrated pig
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3British Dictionary definitions for Barrow (4 of 4)
/ (ˈbærəʊ) /
a river in SE Ireland, rising in the Slieve Bloom Mountains and flowing south to Waterford Harbour. Length: about 193 km (120 miles)
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