barrow

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Scrabble points: 11
Words With Friends: 12
Letters: 6

Pronunciation

/ˈbæɹəʊ/

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/ˈbæɹəʊ/ · /ˈbæɹoʊ/ (US) · /ˈbɛɹoʊ/ · /ˈbɛɚ.oʊ/ · /ˈbaɾo/ · /ˈbaɾou/

Definition of barrow

22 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(obsolete)A mountain.

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noun

(obsolete)A mountain.
(British)A hill.
A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

“Meronym: dolmen”
““Will you ask our oldest warriors to build me a barrow?””
A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
(British)A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.

“The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.”
A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
A castrated boar.
A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.

name

(countable, uncountable)A surname.
(countable, uncountable)Former name of Utqiagvik, the borough seat of North Slope Borough, Alaska, renamed in 2016.
(countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Greene County, Illinois.
(countable, uncountable)A number of places in England:
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(countable, uncountable)A number of places in England:
(countable, uncountable)A number of places in England:
(countable, uncountable)A river in eastern Ireland, which flows from County Laois, via County Kildare, County Kilkenny, County Carlow, County Wexford and County Waterford to Waterford Harbour.

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Etymology

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From Middle English berwe, bergh, from Old English beorg (“mountain, hill, mound, barrow, burial place”), from Proto-West Germanic *berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (“hill, mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰos (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise up, ascend; to be elevated, up high”). Doublet of berg and bergh. Cognates Cognate with Scots burrow (“mound, tumulus, barrow”), North Frisian Bārig, beerch, beeri, beerj, berag, berig, berri, bärj (“mountain”), Saterland Frisian Bierich, Bíerig, Bäirch (“mountain”), West Frisian berch (“mountain”), Cimbrian pèrge (“mountain”), Dutch berg (“mountain”), German Berg (“mountain”), German Low German Barg (“mountain”), Limburgish berg, Bärrech (“hill, mountain”), Luxembourgish Bierg (“mountain”), Mòcheno pèrg (“mountain”), Yiddish באַרג (barg, “mountain”), Danish bjerg (“mountain”), Elfdalian bjärr (“hill, mountain”), Faroese berg, bjarg (“cliff”), bjørg (“cliffs”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish berg (“mountain”); also Northern Luri برگ (berg, “mountain”), Polish brzeg (“bank, shore”), Russian бе́рег (béreg, “bank, shore”).

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