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bar⋅low

  [bahr-loh]
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–noun South Midland and Southern U.S.
a large pocketknife with one blade.
Also called barlow knife.

Origin:
1770–80, Americanism; after a family of Sheffield cutlers named Barlow, who are alleged to have produced a knife of this type before 1700
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Bar⋅low

  [bahr-loh]
–noun
Joel, 1754–1812, U.S. poet and diplomat.
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bar·low   (bär'lō')   
n.  An inexpensive, one- or two-bladed pocketknife.

[After Barlow, the family name of its makers, two brothers in Sheffield, England.]
Bar·low   (bär'lō')   
American poet and diplomat in Algiers (1795-1797). Among his noted poetic works are "The Hasty Pudding" (1796) and the epic Columbiad (1807).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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