(n.) A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.
(n.) A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.
(n.) A hog, esp. a male hog castrated.
(n.) A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
(n.) A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) By a comparison with the published infrared spectra of the water in model systems [Mohr, S.C., Wilk, W.D., & Barrow, G.M.
(2) Halifa Sallah, the spokesman for Barrow’s coalition, said he expected Jammeh to change his defiant position when he saw that the military were no longer with him, which he thought would happen imminently.
(3) The other was David York, branch secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and an organiser of the anti-academy protest in Barrow-in-Furness.
(4) Barrows were fed two sources of phosphorus with increasing levels of sodium.
(5) 3, barrows fitted with an ileal T-cannula were used in a 4 X 4 Latin square design.
(6) Swansea, for whom Jefferson Montero was outstanding, levelled when Gylfi Sigurdsson curled a sublime 25-yard free-kick into the top corner, after Kieran Gibbs had cynically brought down Modou Barrow, the Swansea substitute.
(7) New Gambian leader Adama Barrow sworn in at ceremony in Senegal Read more But Jammeh, like most dictators, gives greater weight to his ego and grandeur over national peace and harmony.
(8) Between 1972 and 1990, 159 pediatric patients were admitted to the Barrow Neurological Institute with acute traumatic spinal cord or vertebral column injuries.
(9) In conclusion, reciprocal cross differences detected for BF and LMA in barrows were established before or at fertilization and seemed to be Y-linked.
(10) The response to rpST in lean tissue growth rate from 60 to 100 kg was highest in fatter animals (Duroc, barrows), whereas from 100 to 140 kg, response in lean tissue growth rate to rpST was highest in leaner animals (Pietrain, F1, gilts).
(11) Sixteen barrows and 16 gilts of average liveweight 40 kg were fed on diets containing 0, 10, 20 or 30% copra cake.
(12) Barrows sired by D boars reared in a D postfertilization environment (ET) had 6.2 cm2 greater LMA and 4.1 mm less BF (P less than .05) than barrows sired by L boars gestated and reared by D dams (non-ET).
(13) Holding a Qur’an and looking solemn, Barrow was sworn in at the Gambian embassy in Dakar, where he has spent the past few days, and delivered his inaugural speech as president.
(14) The administration of pST resulted in an increase in muscle fiber size for all three fiber types in all three sexes, but these changes were of greater magnitude in barrows (31.8%) and gilts (27.8%) than in boars (9.3%).
(15) If fabrics break down then [microfibers] are another pathway for those [chemicals into the environment].” Those fighting the use of microbeads in beauty products are finding more traction, Barrows says, because phasing them out is straightforward.
(16) The metabolism of 19-nortestosterone was investigated in a miniature non-castrated male pig (boar), in a castrated pig (barrow) and in a female pig (sow).
(17) Since then, several of you have tipped us a wink in the direction of one such man in black who actually did find the net - in a third division game between Barrow AFC and Plymouth Argyle back on November 9 1968.
(18) Boars at 105 kg had 1.3 and 1.7% more moisture in the BR and ST, respectively, than barrows.
(19) Twelve blood serum components were determined on 78 barrows and 66 gilts, serially slaughtered at six age groups, starting at 69 d, at 2-wk intervals.
(20) When the new energy secretary, Ed Davey , went to Barrow to formally open Walney, he was told by some local residents that there was a strong feeling the people of Barrow had missed out on jobs, opportunities and social funding.
Tumulus
Definition:
(n.) An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was always proposing adventures: a night stake-out of a new badger warren "in a mysterious wooded tumulus in Thornham Woods", or a joint attempt to traverse an acre of ancient woodland from one side to another without touching the ground, like the hero of Italo Calvino's beautiful book, The Baron Of The Trees.
(2) The inhumation and cremation burials from two tumulus cemeteries of the Hallstatt period (750-500 BC), Dietfurt and Schirndorf, which are both located in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, were used as illustrations.