farrow
noun
a litter of pigs.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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If Evelyn could have seen him, he would never have farrowed two such prodigious volumes; seeing how much good can be contained in—how small a compass!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various