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Definitions for Barrow

[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): Trentishoe Barrow in North Devon; Whitbarrow in North Lancashire.
[6] a castrated male swine.
[7] Also called Bar·row-in-Fur·ness [bar -oh-in-fur -nis] /ˈbær oʊ ɪnˈfɜr nɪs/ . 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.
[10] See wheelbarrow, handbarrow
[11] Also called: barrowful the amount contained in or on a barrow
[12] mainly British a handcart, typically having two wheels and a canvas roof, used esp by street vendors
[13] Northern English dialect concern or business (esp in the phrases that's not my barrow , that's just my barrow )
[14] into one's barrow Irish and Scot dialect suited to one's interests or desires
[15] 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
[16] a castrated pig
[17] a river in SE Ireland, rising in the Slieve Bloom Mountains and flowing south to Waterford Harbour. Length: about 193 km (120 miles)
[18] See Barrow-in-Furness, Barrow Point

Words related to Barrow

mountain, mote, hog, dune, pile, hill, mound, bank, tumulus, gurry

Words nearby Barrow

barrister and solicitor, barro, barron, barroom, barros, barrow, barrow boy, barrow pit, barrow point, barrow's goldeneye, barrow-boy

Origin of Barrow

3before 1000; Middle English barowe, baru, Old English bearg; cognate with Old High German barug, Old Norse bǫrgr. Cf. bore2, whose meaning is close to the semantics of cutting or splitting (referring to castration)

Word origin for Barrow

Old English bearg ; related to Old Norse börgr , Old High German barug

Synonyms for Barrow

bank, dune, hill, hog, mote, mound, mountain, pile, tumulus, gurry