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Nov 14, 2009
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bar•row



Pronunciation: (bar'ō), [key]
—n.
1. a flat, rectangular frame used for carrying a load, esp. such a frame with projecting shafts at each end for handles; handbarrow.
2. a wheelbarrow.
3. Brit.a pushcart used by street vendors, esp. by costermongers.

bar•row



Pronunciation: (bar'ō), [key]
—n.
1. Archaeol.tumulus (def. 1).
2. Chiefly Brit.a hill (sometimes used in combination): Trentishoe Barrow in North Devon; Whitbarrow in North Lancashire.

bar•row



Pronunciation: (bar'ō), [key]
—n.
a castrated male swine.

Bar•row



Pronunciation: (bar'ō), [key]
—n.
1. Also called Bar•row-in-Fur•ness Pronunciation: (bar'ō in fûr'nis). [key]a seaport in Cumbria, in NW England. 73,900.
2. Point, the N tip of Alaska: the northernmost point of the U.S.
3. a town in N Alaska, S of Barrow Point: site of a government science-research center. 2207.

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