Barrow (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. a wheelbarrow.
  2. a flat, rectangular frame used for carrying a load, especially such a frame with projecting shafts at each end for handles; handbarrow.
  3. a pushcart used by street vendors, especially by costermongers.
noun
  1. tumulus (def. 1).
  2. a hill (sometimes used in combination): Trentishoe Barrow in North Devon; Whitbarrow in North Lancashire.
noun
  1. a castrated male swine.
noun
  1. a seaport in Cumbria, in northwestern England.
  2. the northern tip of Alaska: the northernmost point of the U.S.
  3. a town in northern Alaska, south of Barrow Point: site of a government science-research center.
noun
  1. See wheelbarrow, handbarrow
  2. the amount contained in or on a barrow
  3. a handcart, typically having two wheels and a canvas roof, used esp by street vendors
  4. concern or business (esp in the phrases that's not my barrow, that's just my barrow)
  5. suited to one's interests or desires
noun
  1. a heap of earth placed over one or more prehistoric tombs, often surrounded by ditches. Long barrows are elongated Neolithic mounds usually covering stone burial chambers; round barrows are Bronze Age, covering burials or cremations
noun
  1. a castrated pig
noun
  1. a river in SE Ireland, rising in the Slieve Bloom Mountains and flowing south to Waterford Harbour. Length: about 193 km (120 miles)
  2. See Barrow-in-Furness, Barrow Point
Barrow (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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