[bar-oh] 
| 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. | British. a pushcart used by street vendors, esp. by costermongers. |
[bar-oh] | 1. | Archaeology. tumulus (def. 1). |
| 2. | Chiefly British. a hill (sometimes used in combination): Trentishoe Barrow in North Devon; Whitbarrow in North Lancashire. |
[bar-oh] | a castrated male swine. |
[bar-oh] | 1. | Also called Bar⋅row-in-Fur⋅ness [bar-oh-in-fur-nis] . a seaport in Cumbria, in NW England. 73,900. |
| 2. | Point, the N tip of Alaska: the northernmost point of the U.S. |
| 3. | a town in N Alaska, S of Barrow Point: site of a government science-research center. 2207. |
| bar·row 1 (bār'ō) n.
[Middle English barowe, from Old English *bearwe; see bher-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
| bar·row 2 (bār'ō) n. A large mound of earth or stones placed over a burial site. [Middle English bergh, from Old English beorg, beorh, hill, burial site; see bhergh-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
| bar·row 3 (bār'ō) n. A pig that has been castrated before reaching sexual maturity. [Middle English barow, from Old English bearg.] |
| Bar·row (bār'ō) The northernmost point of Alaska, in the northwest on the Arctic Ocean. The nearby city of Barrow has research and government facilities. Population: 4,010. |
barrow
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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