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farrow
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Farrow \Far"row\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Farrowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Farrowing .] To bring forth (young); -- said only of swine. --Tusser.
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Matt Farrow (born 28 October 1991), known as "Farrow", is an English electronic dance music record producer and DJ from Leeds, UK. He has gained support from BBC Radio 1, and played Bestival in Isle of Wight in 2014.
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n. the production of a litter of pigs [syn: farrowing ] v. give birth; "sows farrow" [syn: pig ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English fearh "young pig," from Proto-Germanic *farkhaz "young pig" (cognates: Middle Low German ferken , Dutch varken , both diminutives; Old High German farh , German Ferkel "young pig, suckling pig"), from PIE *porko- (see pork (n.)). Sense of "a ...
Usage examples of farrow.
The old sows farrowed again in September and early October, and we went into the winter with 162 young pigs.
Fifteen of the young sows farrowed in March, and the other 9 in April, as also did 18 old ones.
I had 60 well-bred sows, young and old, and I could count on them to farrow at least three times in two years.
Harper stole two freshly farrowed piglets that were roasted the next day in a tumbledown and deserted farmhouse high on a hill.
He was seated at a table of lesser nobility from the smallholdings of Buck and Farrow.
Two of the infiltrators were lying contentedly in the gravel, engulfing the bodies of their deceased comrades without a care for the crossbow quarrels sticking straight up, but half a dozen others were making straight for the farrowing pens.
I had calved cows and farrowed sows till my arms ached and the skin peeled off, I had been knocked down, trampled on and sprayed liberally with every kind of muck.
The sensation as the door closed behind Teresa Farrow was reminiscent of the one she used to have sneaking out of the care home, a giddy relief.
At Caere a pig had been farrowed with two heads, and a lamb yeaned which was both male and female.
If the syphilitic sow who farrowed you knew your father's name, why have you refrained from identifying your house?
The livestock consisted of half a dozen large crates of fowls, twenty sows, two of which had farrowed during the voyage, five boars, and three goats.
She had, since first her father had married her to Komees Hari and she had learned of her noble husband's love for both the boy and the half-kindred peasant who had farrowed him, actively hated them both almost as much as she hated her coarse, barbaric heathen spouse.
Ostensibly the Buck troops were to report to Captain Keffel of the Farrow men, the commander of Lord Bright's guard.
Ostensibly the Buck troops were to report to Captain Keffel of the Farrow men, the commander of Lord Bright’s guard.
Farrow, the lighthouse keeper's mother-in-law-decided we were going to make the evening as fine as we could.