barrow

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• Barrow

  ·noun A heap of rubbish, attle, ·etc. II. Barrow ·noun A hog, ·esp. a male hog castrated. III. Bar...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• barrow

  a gelt pig. Exmoor. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Sea barrow

  ·- A sea purse. ...

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• Barrow, Isaac

  (1630-1677) Divine, scholar, and mathematician, s. of a linen-draper in London, was ed. at Charterh...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• barrow man

  A man under sentence of transportation; alluding to the convicts at Woolwich, who are principally em...

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• knight and barrow pig

  more hog than gentleman. A saying of any low pretender to precedency. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose