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barrow1
/bar"oh/, n.
1. a flat, rectangular frame used for carrying a load, esp. such a frame with projecting shafts at each end for handles; handbarrow.
2. a wheelbarrow.
3. Brit. a pushcart used by street vendors, esp. by costermongers.
[
bef. 1000; ME bar(e)we, OE bearwe; akin to MHG bere, BIER, BEAR1]
/bar"oh/, n.
1. Archaeol. tumulus (
def. 1).
2. Chiefly Brit. a hill (sometimes used in combination): Trentishoe Barrow in North Devon; Whitbarrow in North Lancashire.
[
bef. 900; ME berw, beruh, bargh, berg(h), OE beorg hill, mound; c. OFris, OS, D, OHG berg mountain, ON bjarg, berg cliff, Armenian berdz height, Welsh bera heap; akin to Avestan baraz-, barazant-, Skt brhánt- high. See BOROUGH]
/bar"oh/, n.
a castrated male swine.
[bef. 1000; ME barowe, baru, OE bearg; c. OHG barug, ON borgr. Cf. BORE1, whose meaning is close to the semantics of cutting or splitting (referring to castration)]
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in England, ancient burial place covered with a large mound of earth. In Scotland, Ireland, and Wales the equivalent term is
cairn. Barrows were constructed in England from Neolithic (
c. 4000 BC) until late pre-Christian (
c. AD 600) times. Barrows of the Neolithic Period were long and contained the various members of a family or clan, while those of the Early Bronze Age (
c. 1900 BC) were round in shape and were used to bury a single important individual, perhaps a chief or clan leader. The bodies were placed in stone or wooden vaults, over which large mounds of soil were heaped. Both types of barrows continued to be used in England until the advent of Christianity. Their sites are most common in the county of Wiltshire.
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