Definitions for barrows

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barrows bar·row

Spelling: [bar-oh]

IPA: /ˈbær oʊ/

Barrows is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in barrows (aborrsw).

Definitions for barrows

noun

1. a flat, rectangular frame used for carrying a load, especially such a frame with projecting shafts at each end for handles; handbarrow.
2. a wheelbarrow.
3. British. a pushcart used by street vendors, especially by costermongers.
4. Archaeology. tumulus (def 1).
5. Chiefly British. a hill (sometimes used in combination):
6. a castrated male swine.
7. Also called Barrow-in-Furness [bar-oh-in-fur-nis] /ˈbær oʊ ɪnˈfɜr nɪs/ (Show IPA). a seaport in Cumbria, in NW England.
8. Point, the N tip of Alaska: the northernmost point of the U.S.
9. a town in N Alaska, S of Barrow Point: site of a government science-research center.

Origin of barrows

before 1000; Middle English bar(e)we, Old English bearwe; akin to Middle High German bere, bier, bear¹

Examples for barrows

“These are my guns now,” barrow proclaims in the ad, cocking the gun.

Eleanor was even more bitter than her husband, refusing to forgive barrow for his coldness.

In its barrow it trusted, its battling and bulwarks: that boast was vain!

Temple, barrow, etc., have thus been raised to proper names.

In Republican election committees on the Hill, “barrow” had become a dirty word said only in hushed tones.

A gentleman of the name of barrow, who introduced Home to Collins.

“I have never been a rubber stamp for any party, any party leadership, or any president,” barrow said at a campaign stop.

And soil might have been taken from the bottom of this Dorchester barrow which produced them.

Since then, barrow has been periodically loved and hated by both sides.

barrow, it seems, was at the Edinburgh University, which is in the county of Lothian.