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Each tally mark represents 300 pounds of coal, since the amount of coal in the barrow is adjusted at each weighing, so that the scales just balance.

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  1. noun A handbarrow.
  2. noun A wheelbarrow.
  3. noun A large mound of earth or stones placed over a burial site.
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  1. Middle English barowe, from Old English *bearwe; see bher-1 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English bergh, from Old English beorg, beorh, hill, burial site; see bhergh-2 in Indo-European roots.
  3. Middle English barow, from Old English bearg.

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  1. Early modern English also barow, barrough (modern dial. bargh, barf, q. v., also berry); from Middle English berw, beruʒ, berʒ, bergh, beoruh (also, with vowel apparently affected by association with other words, borw, borgh, burgh, etc., whence the modern form with differentiated meaning burrow, q. v.), from Anglo-Saxon beorg, beorh = Old Saxon berg = OFries. berg, berch = Dutch berg = Old High German berg, Middle High German berc, German berg (later English berg in ice-berg) = Swedish berg = Danish bjærg = Gothic (Moesogothic) *bairgs (in deriv. bairgahei, a mountainous district), a hill, mountain, = Icelandic berg, bjarg, a rock, precipice, = Old Irish brigh, Irish bri = Welsh bre = Breton bre, a mountain, hill (cf. Welsh bry, high), = Old Bulgarian brĕgŭ = Servian brijeg = Bohemian breh = Polish brzeg = Russian beregŭ, shore, bank; cf. Zend berezanh, a height, berezant, high, = Sanskrit brihant, strong, mighty, lofty, present participle of √ brih, barh, be thick, be strong. The orig. notion is that of a height, and there is no connection with Anglo-Saxon beorgan, etc., cover: see bury.
  2. from Middle English barrow, barow, barowe, barewe, barwe, from Anglo-Saxon *bearwe (a form *berewe is cited but not authenticated), a barrow (cf. Dutch berrie, Middle High German bere, a hand-barrow, Middle High German rade-ber, German radberge, radbürge, dial. radeberre, a wheelbarrow, Icelandic barar, modern börur, plural, a bier, Swedish bår, barrow, bier, Danish baare, bier, Anglo-Saxon bǣr, English bier; also Latin feretrum, from Greek φέρετρον, a litter, bier, all from the same ult. source), from beran, bear: see bear and bier.
  3. from barrow, n.
  4. from Middle English barow, barowe, baru, from Anglo-Saxon bearg, bearh = Friesic baerg = Dutch barg, berg = Old High German barg, barug, Middle High German barc, German barch = Icelandic börgr, a castrated boar. Not connected, as sometimes suggested, with L. verres, a boar, Sanskrit varāha, a boar. Cf. hog, of the same orig. sense.
  5. from Middle English berwe, from Anglo-Saxon bearu, a grove (= Icelandic börr, a kind of tree); perhaps orig. a fruit-bearing tree, from beran = Icelandic bera, bear.
  6. English dial., also barry, barrie. Origin obscure, perhaps ult. from Anglo-Saxon beorgan, cover, protect.
 

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