Barrow

Definitions: Barrow

Barrow

Noun

1. The quantity that a barrow will hold.

2. (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs.

3. A cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels.

Date "barrow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	A male hog castrated before sexual maturity. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. A wicker basket in which salt is put to drain b. A box with two handles at one end and a wheel at the other. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Barrow

Synonyms: barrowful (n), burial mound (n), garden cart (n), grave mound (n), lawn cart (n), tumulus (n), wheelbarrow (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Height	Mount, mountain; hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights; (summit); knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height.
Interment	Grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence.
Vehicle	Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Barrow

English words defined with "barrow": barrow-boy, barrowful, barrow-man ♦ costermonger ♦ Drill barrow ♦ Garden pump ♦ Joseph Louis Barrow ♦ Sea barrow, Shark barrow. (references)

Specialty definitions using "barrow": 99723 ♦ auroral zone ♦ bottom filler, box barrow ♦ fondo rientrante ♦ hand frame ♦ KNIGHT AND BARROW PIG ♦ pedestrian-controlled dumper, power barrow. (references)

Etymologies containing "barrow": ridgeling. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You best keep runnin', Clyde Barrow. And you know it. (Bonnie and Clyde; writing credit: David Newman; Robert Benton)
Clever	We should allow other's excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own. (references; author: Barrow) They who depend on the merits of ancestors, search in the roots of the tree for the fruits which the branches ought to produce. (references; author: Barrow) Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back. (references; author: Barrow)
Movie/TV Titles	The Barrow Gang (1995) Barrow Gang BC (1985)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Barrow (reference) Barrow & McGee's Practical Measurement and Assessment (reference) Barrow County (reference) Parallel Logic: A Barrow Memoir (reference) The Lockington Gold Hoard: An Early Bronze Age Barrow Cemetery at Lockington, Leicestershire (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Barrow County News (reference) Barrow Quarterly (reference) Barrow Street (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Rumpole of the Bailey, Vol 16 - The Bright Seraphim/The Barrow Boy (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Keith Barrow [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Gray whale trapped in Arctic ice north of Point Barrow.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).		Clean Air Facility at Point Barrow.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Tractors for transportation at Point Barrow.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Celebrating a successful whaling season on the beach at Point Barrow. The whales were cut up and divided among the villagers.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Ice floe passing by loaded with trash and waste from Point Barrow, 80 miles to the west.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Navy reservists shuttling survey crew's annual supplies ashore with "Water Buffalo" from an LST of the Barrow Expedition (BAREX). Shallow water necessitated anchoring offshore.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Commander Maurice Hecht, Commander Glenn Moore, and Bud Stone at the Barrow headquarters.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Bell UH-1M supporting through-ice CTD studies for OCSEAP. West of Point Barrow.Credit: Flying With NOAA.
	Point Barrow, Alaska.Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth.		Point Barrow Before and After 1963 Storm.Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Barrow	We should allow other's excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.
	They who depend on the merits of ancestors, search in the roots of the tree for the fruits which the branches ought to produce.
	Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.
Winston Churchill	Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	Even a porter passing, with a barrow piled with luggage, seemed so realistic that one was tempted to applaud.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Belize	Dean Barrow is the leader of the opposition. (references)
Human Rights	Belize	In February 2000, an off-duty police officer armed with a machete chased Kelvin "Brambles" Barrow into the sea, where Barrow died. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Barrow" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 51.89% of the time. "Barrow" is used about 502 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	51.89%	261	18,276
Noun (singular)	48.11%	242	19,213
Total	100.00%	502	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "barrow" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Barrow	Last name	7,000	1,802
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

1. Barrow, AK (city, FIPS 5200)
Location: 71.26826 N, 156.80627 W
Population (1990): 3469 (1184 housing units)
Area: 48.7 sq km (land), 5.8 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 99723
Country: USA

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Expressions: Barrow

Expressions using "barrow": barrow boy ♦ Barrow County ♦ chambered barrow ♦ Drill barrow ♦ Joseph Louis Barrow ♦ sea barrow ♦ shark barrow ♦ ship barrow. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "barrow": barrow-boy, barrow-boys, Barrow-carlisle, Barrow-diggers, barrow-downs, Barrow-in-furness, barrow-like, barrow-load, barrow-man, Barrow-on-furness, barrow-wight, barrow-wights.
	Ending with "barrow": Bag-barrow, box-barrow, ex-barrow, fruit-barrow, hand-barrow, trail-barrow, wheel-barrow.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Barrow

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
barrow alaska	668
barrow	151
barrow county home loan	97
croft and barrow	58
wheel barrow	57
barrow county georgia	42
barrow county	41
barrow clyde	39
barrow down	39
barrow county school	33
barrow hotel	33
barrow county news	27
barrow in furnace	26
barrow neurological institute	23
barrow county ga	19
bonnie parker and clyde barrow	17
barrow collins	14
barrow crate	13
barrow furnace in kingdom united	13
barrow biddle sydney	12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Barrow

Language		Translations for "barrow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Tumë (mound), Karrocë Dore (cart, hand-barrow, handcart, trolley, wheelbarrow). (various references)

Arabic		‏تل (down, elevation, heap, highland, hill, hummock, knoll, monticule, mound), ‏عربة يد (pushcart), ‏خنزير مخصي, ‏جبل (knead, mount, mountain), ‏ركام من تراب (tumulus), ‏رابية (elevation, hill, hillock, hummock, hump, mound, tuft). (various references)

Bulgarian		Куп, Кастриран Шопар, Носилка, Тарга, �"робна Могила, � ъчна Количка. (various references)

Chinese		手推车. (various references)

Czech		Trakař (trundle, wheelbarrow, wheel-barrow), Koleèko (caster, hand-barrow, round, wheel, wheelbarrow, wheel-barrow), Dvoukolák (handcart). (various references)

Danish		orne kastreret som pattegris. (various references)

Dutch		berg (barrier, cradle cap, mountain), barg, grafheuvel (burial mound, grave-mound, tumulus). (various references)

Esperanto		tombomonteto (burial mound, grave-mound, tumulus). (various references)

Farsi		پشته (Embankment, Heap, Hill, Hillock, Mound, Rick, Stack), ماهور (Dale, Knoll, Mound), چرخ دوره گردها, چرخ دستی (Wheelbarrow), کوه (Mountain), تپه (Hill, Mound, Mount), توده (Aggregate, Bloc, Block, Bulk, Clot, Cob, Congeries, Gross, Heap, Hill, Lump, Mass, Midden, Oodles, Pile, Pyre, Rick, Riffraff, Shock, Stack, Volume, Wad), زنبه , خاک کش . (various references)

Finnish		leikkokarju, leikko. (various references)

French		Brouette, Brancard, Tumulus, porc castré jeune, jeune porc châtré, Civière. (various references)

German		Karre (cart, crate, heap, wheelbarrow). (various references)

Greek		όχημα Ορυχείου, όεταφέρω όε χειράμαξα, νεαρός χοίρος εκτομίας, χειράμαξα (cart, wheelbarrow), ευνουχισμένος χοίρος. (various references)

Hebrew		־ריצ�", ׂ�'לת ֹ�". (various references)

Hungarian		Talicska (wheelbarrow). (various references)

Indonesian		menggarukkan (scratch with), menggaru, garu. (various references)

Italian		Barella (litter, stretcher), Tumulo (cairn, mound, tumulus), maiale castrato, Carriola (hand truck, sack truck, two-wheeled barrow, two-wheeled trolley, wheel barrow, wheelbarrow, wheelbarrows), Carretto (bogie, cart, handcart, trolley), Altura (deep sea, height, high ground, high sea, Hill, rise). (various references)

Manx		muc aail (sow), cronnag oanluckee, carnane oanluckee (burial mound), barrey (bar, boat passage, bolt, channel). (various references)

Norwegian		trillebår. (various references)

Pig Latin		arrowbay

Portuguese		Padiola (doom, hand-barrow, litter, stretcher), Monte Pequeno, Maca (doolie, hammock, hand-barrow, litter, stretcher), Carrinho De Mão (handcuff, pushcart, wheelbarrow), Carreta De Bagagens, Capacete (cap, casque, headpiece, helm, helmet, joystick, steering wheel). (various references)

Romanian		Targã (hand-barrow, litter, stretcher), Tãrãboanţã (wheelbarrow), Roabã (bondwoman, slave, trolley, wheelbarrow), Movilã (heap, hillock, hump, knob, knoll, mound, rising, tumulus, up), Gorgan (mound). (various references)

Russian		Тачка, � учная Тележка. (various references)

Scottish		barpa. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uškopljen vepar, ručna kolica (handcart, pushcart), mogila, humka (hillock, hummock, hump, mound, tor, tumulus). (various references)

Spanish		Túmulo (burial mound, mound, tumulus), Colina (dome, height, Hill, tor), cerdo castrado joven, Carro (base-course metaling, base-course metalling, bottoming, car, carriage, carrier, cart, cart load, chariot, farm cart, hand truck, laying base-course, loading, motor, motorcar, pitching, saddle, shopping cart, soleing, tank, tool saddle, tool-carriage, truck, waggon, wagon), Carretilla (cart, crab, go-cart, hairy medick, handcart, pallet truck, pushcart, rough-terrain counterbalanced fork-lift truck, toothed medick, trolley, truck, US california burclover, wheelbarrow). (various references)

Swedish		Skottkärra (truck, wheelbarrow, wheel-barrow), Kärra (bus, carriole, cart, drag, kite, pushcart, pushcart man, trolley, truck, tumbrel, tumbril), Bår (bier, feretory, litter, stretcher). (various references)

Turkish		Tepecik (Hill, hillock, hummock, knap, knoll, kopje, little hill, mound, stigma), Tümsek (bulge, bump, gibbous, hillock, hummock, hump, mound, prominence, protuberance, protuberant, rise, swell), Hadım Edilmiş Domuz, Höyük (burial mound, cairn, motte, tumulus), El Arabası (drag, handcart, pushcart, trolley, truck, wheelbarrow), Çek Çek. (various references)

Ukranian		Підвозити На Тачці, Пагорбок, Курган, Купа (Bing), Могила, Носилки, Тачка. (various references)

Vietnamese		gò (hill, hillock, hummock, hurst, knoll, monticle, monticule). (various references)

Welsh		berfa (wheelbarrow), whilber (wheelbarrow), crug (abscess, blister, heap, hillock, multitude, tumulus). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Barrow

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cinis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Barrow

Derivations
	Words beginning with "barrow": barrows. (additional references)
	Words ending with "barrow": handbarrow, wheelbarrow. (additional references)
	Words containing "barrow": handbarrows, wheelbarrowed, wheelbarrowing, wheelbarrows. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Barrow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aarrow, Bahro, bairro, Bairros, balrog, Baraou, Barbro, Barkov, Barmow, Baro, barog, barol, barow, barown, barra, Barrau, barrot, Barroux, braow, Darrow, parrow, Sbarro. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Barrow"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "barrow" (pronounced ba"rō)
3	-a" r ō	arrow, Harrow.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Barrow

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-o-r-r-w"
	-1 letter: arbor, arrow.
	-2 letters: boar, bora, braw, brow, orra, roar.
	-3 letters: abo, arb, bar, boa, bow, bra, bro, brr, oar, ora, orb, raw, rob, row, wab, war.
	-4 letters: ab, ar, aw, ba, bo, or, ow, wo.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-o-r-r-w"
	+1 letter: barrows, crowbar.
	+2 letters: crowbars, drawbore, wardrobe.
	+3 letters: drawbores, wardrobes.
	+4 letters: brainpower, breastwork, broadsword, crowbarred, handbarrow, marrowbone, narrowband, pawnbroker, rowanberry, waterborne.
	+5 letters: bladderwort, brainpowers, breastworks, broadswords, crowbarring, handbarrows, marrowbones, pawnbrokers, snowboarder, wheelbarrow.
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