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barrow
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barrow \Bar"row\ (b[a^]r"r[-o]), n. [OE. barow, fr. AS. beran to bear. See Bear to support, and cf. Bier.]
A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.
(Salt Works) A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.
Barrow \Bar"row\ (b[a^]r"r[-o]), n. [OE. barow, bargh, AS.
bearg, bearh; akin to Icel. b["o]rgr, OHG. barh, barug, G.
barch. [root]95.]
A hog, esp. a male hog castrated.
--Holland.
Barrow \Bar"row\, n. [OE. bergh, AS. beorg, beorh, hill, sepulchral mound; akin to G. berg mountain, Goth. bairgahei hill, hilly country, and perh. to Skr. b[.r]hant high, OIr. brigh mountain. Cf. Berg, Berry a mound, and Borough an incorporated town.]
A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
(Mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"vehicle for carrying a load," c.1300, barewe, probably from an unrecorded Old English *bearwe "basket, barrow," from beran "to bear, to carry" (see bear (v.)). The original had no wheel and required two persons to carry it.
"mound," Old English beorg (West Saxon), berg (Anglian) "barrow, mountain, hill, mound," from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German berg "mountain," Old North bjarg "rock"), from PIE root *bhergh- (2) "high, elevated" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic bregu "mountain, height;" Old Irish brigh "mountain;" Welsh bera "stack, pyramid;" Sanskrit b'rhant "high," brmhati "strengthens, elevates;" Avestan brzant- "high," Old Persian bard- "be high;" Greek Pergamos, name of the citadel of Troy). Obsolete except in place-names and southwest England dialect by 1400; revived by modern archaeology.\n\nIn place-names used of small continuously curving hills, smaller than a dun, with the summit typically occupied by a single farmstead or by a village church with the village beside the hill, and also of burial mounds. [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names]\nMeaning "mound erected over a grave" was a specific sense in late Old English. Barrow-wight first recorded 1869 in Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris's translation of the Icelandic saga of Grettir the Strong.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete English) A mountain. 2 (context chiefly British English) A hill. 3 A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. 4 (context mining English) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse. Etymology 2
n. A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand. Etymology 3
n. (context obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects English) A castrated boar.
WordNet
n. the quantity that a barrow will hold [syn: barrowful]
(archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs [syn: burial mound, grave mound, tumulus]
a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels [syn: garden cart, lawn cart, wheelbarrow]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1620
Land area (2000): 18.396982 sq. miles (47.647963 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.929036 sq. miles (7.586167 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 21.326018 sq. miles (55.234130 sq. km)
FIPS code: 05200
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 71.300371 N, 156.735840 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99723
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Barrow
Housing Units (2000): 17304
Land area (2000): 162.170535 sq. miles (420.019739 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.669861 sq. miles (1.734931 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 162.840396 sq. miles (421.754670 sq. km)
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.994618 N, 83.721626 W
Headwords:
Barrow, GA
Barrow County
Barrow County, GA
Wikipedia
Barrow may refer to:
Barrow is small fell in the English Lake District in the county of Cumbria which reaches a height of 455 metres (1,494 feet). It is situated in the quiet and picturesque Newlands Valley just 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) south-west of the town of Keswick. Although modest in height, Barrow commands a fine all-round view, with the vales of Keswick and Newlands being well seen. The name of the fell originates from the Anglo Saxon language meaning a hill or long ridge.
Barrow is a public sculpture by an American artist Jill Viney. It is located on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus, which is near downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The sculpture is just north of the Herron School of Art on New York Street. This sculpture is made from a double wall of fiberglass encasing a sheet of metal meshing. Barrow measures and in diameter. Barrow was installed at IUPUI at noon on 7 May 2008.
Barrow is an old lunar crater that is located near the northern limb of the Moon. It lies between the crater Goldschmidt to the northwest and the irregular formation Meton to the northeast. To the southwest is W. Bond.
The outer wall of Barrow has been heavily eroded by subsequent impacts, and reshaped by intruding craters. As a result, the rim now resembles a ring of rounded hills and peaks surrounding the flat interior. The younger satellite crater Barrow A lies across the southwest rim. At the eastern end of the crater is a narrow gap in the rim that joins the floor to the adjacent crater Meton. The rim achieves its maximum height and extend in the northwest, where it is joined to Goldschmidt.
The interior of Barrow has been resurfaced by lava flows, leaving a flat surface that is marked by many tiny craterlets. Faint traces of ray material from Anaxagoras to the west forms streaks across the floor of Barrow.
Barrow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Anibal Barrow (1948–2013), Honduran journalist
- Bernard Barrow (1927–1993), American actor
- Clyde Barrow (1909–1934), American gangster, part of the Bonnie and Clyde crime duo
- Dean Barrow (born 1951), Belizean politician
- Ed Barrow (1868–1953), baseball executive
- Errol Barrow (1920–1987), Barbados politician
- Geoff Barrow (born 1971), English musician
- George Barrow (geologist) (1853–1932), British geologist
- George Barrow (musician) (1921–2013), American jazz saxophonist
- Henry Barrowe (c. 1550–1593), 16th Century English Puritan and separatist
- Irvine Barrow (1913–2005), Canadian politician
- Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), English divine, scholar and mathematician
- Isaac Barrow (bishop) (1613–1680), Bishop of Sodor and Man and of St Asaph; Governor of the Isle of Man
- Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764–1848), English statesman
- John Barrow (U.S. politician) (born 1955), Representative for Georgia's 12th congressional district
- John D. Barrow (born 1952), English theoretical physicist
- Joseph Louis Barrow (1914–1981), former heavyweight boxing champion, better known simply as Joe Louis
- Middleton P. Barrow (1839–1903), Senator from Georgia
- Nita Barrow (1916–1995), Governor-General of Barbados
- Reginald Haynes Barrow (born 1893), American historian, author of The Romans and other books
- Robert H. Barrow (1922–2008), American general, 27th Commandant of the US Marine Corps
- Steve Barrow, reggae historian
- Tim Barrow (born 1964), British diplomat
- Thomas Barrow (Jesuit) (1747–1813), British Jesuit
- Thomas Barrow (politician) (1916–1982), politician in Manitoba, Canada
- Tony Barrow (1936–2016), English public relations man for The Beatles
Usage examples of "barrow".
Others had entered the hall whilst the two men were speakinga gaggle of clan maids wheeling a laundry barrow and two ancient oasters from the brewhouse who stank of yeastand all eased back against the walls, sensing the tension in the entryway as livestock sensed a storm.
He remembered towards the end seeing Brough with a barrow and some tools passing across the drive towards the lodge, though because of a hedge in the way he could not see exactly where he went with them.
A great barrow was raised to the north of the city, and Buri was laid to rest within it, seated and facing north.
An ice spear had caught Lady Merlion in the back as she ran towards the Barrow, and now protruded in jagged red-tipped spikes from her belly and breast.
He heard the Prince of Barrow through, hummed a line of some obscure monody, his patched eyebrows scaling his brow, then disappeared without excuse.
He cleaned the pens, filled the barrow, ran with it to the place where the droppings were left.
Campion, Superintendent Luke, and Detective Sergeant Picot from the Barrow Road station, in whose division they were not operating, were listening to Miss Rich.
Sergeant Picot placed a cup of nice black tea on the desk where Luke sat writing in the office which had once been his own in the Barrow Road station.
To this edition are prefixed the commendatory verses of Barrow and Marvell.
The ferocious intolerances of the pre-liberal world have been left behind - it is inconceivable now that a Henry Barrow would be executed, or a Henry Garnet, or that the Scrooby Separatists would have been forced to leave home and country - and perhaps as a result of that change, perhaps as a symptom, religion, or at least the conventional religion of ordinary people, has been drained of its passion.
The vegetable-sellers, the organ-grinders, the woman practising her scales, the man playing the trombone, had all trundled away their barrows, pulled down their shutters, and closed the lids of their pianos.
Here were stored Arabian secrets uncynical and sensate, books tattooed in pain-ink, buds turning open, suburb flagstones, broken-down gardens, a tin barrow red hot in the sun, insects in the dusk-fluctuating wind flying against shallow water, a mind where river floor scenes flutter unseen, all in the worming walls of the Keep.
Barrow, the anxious wife of the confidential clerk to Major Vinton, the staunch Union officer in charge of the pay and quartermaster services.
The tutor began to think again of Mother Binning, and, following this, of the stepping-stones at White Farm, and Elspeth and Gilian Barrow balanced above the stream of gold.
In Barrow, the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission spent a large part of its annual convention last year discussing, among other things, the perils of hunting bowhead whales from increasingly thinner ice.