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  1. noun A litter of pigs.
  2. transitive verb To give birth to (a litter of pigs).
  3. intransitive verb To produce a litter of pigs.
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  • Beyond the station fence, a field in plough, farrow, till - ready for seeds. —  The Rik Files
  • Iowa State University estimates that farrow-to-finish operations lost, on average, just over $21 / head last year, a level second only to 1998's average of $27 / head. —  ThePigSite - Industry News
  • Based on December 30 grain futures, the average breakeven cost for farrow to finish production is estimated to be $53 / cwt for live hogs in 2009, which is near the predicted average hog price. —  ThePigSite - Industry News
  • He has a client in the heart of the Corn Belt with 300 sows, farrow-to-finish, who was contemplating a move to 600 sows. —  ThePigSite - Industry News
  • Alliance is a farrow to nursery operation producing weened pigs that are finished at other company-owned facilities, thereby providing approximately 500,000 market hogs annually. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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  1. Ultimately from Old English fearh, pig; see porko- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English ferow.

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  1. Also dial. farry, fare, far, litter of pigs (a sense apparently developed from the plural of the orig. noun, which meant ‘a little pig,’ or perhaps from the verb farrow, as if ‘a farrowing,’ hence ‘the pigs farrowed’: see the verb), from Middle English *farh, found only in plural faren, from Anglo-Saxon fearh (also færh, ferh), plural fearas (only in glosses), a pig, a little pig, = Dutch varken, a pig (diminutive of vark: see aardvark), = Old High German farh, farah, Middle High German varch, German dial. farch, diminutive Old High German farheli, Middle High German verhel, a pig, German ferkel = Swedish far (-galt), a boar, = Latin porcus (Greek πόρκος, apparently from L.), later English pork, q. v.; = Old Irish orc = Lithuanian parszas = Old Bulgarian prase = Russian porosia, a pig. Cf. Anglo-Saxon fōr, foor (in glosses), a little pig, transitive L. porcaster.
  2. = Scots ferry, from Middle English fergen, fargen, past participle yvarged, yveruwed (late North. ferryit), farrow, from farh, plural faren, a little pig: see farrow, n.
  3. Always in reference to a cow, and prob. first in phrase farrow cow; usually connected with D. vaarkoe, also simply vaars, a heifer, in Old Dutch vers-kalf, verse, varse = Middle High German verse, German färse, a heifer, a feminine corresponding to a masculine form, Dutch var, varre, a bullock, = Old High German far, farro, Middle High German var, varre, German farre = Icelandic farri, a bullock, = Anglo-Saxon fearr, a bull. The Anglo-Saxon word is not found later, and can hardly be the source of farrow; it would have produced Middle English *ferr, modern English *far.
 

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