Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A litter of pigs.
- v. To give birth to (a litter of pigs).
- v. To produce a litter of pigs.
- adj. Not pregnant. Used of a cow.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A little pig.
- n. A litter of pigs.
- To bring forth, as pigs: said only of swine.
- Not producing young in a particular season or year: applied to cows only. If a cow has had a calf, but fails in a subsequent year, she is said to be farrow or to go farrow.
Wiktionary
- n. A litter of piglets.
- v. To give birth to a (litter of piglets).
- adj. Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A litter of pigs.
- v. To bring forth (young); -- said only of swine.
- adj. Not producing young in a given season or year; -- said only of cows.
WordNet 3.0
- v. give birth
- n. the production of a litter of pigs
Etymologies
- Middle English farwen 'piglet' (akin to Dutch varken, Middle Low German ferken, New Low German Farken, New High German Ferkel), diminutive of Old English fearh 'pig', from Proto-Germanic *farhaz (compare Dutch vark 'pig', Old High German farah), from Proto-Indo-European *pórkos (compare Middle Irish orc 'piglet', Latin porcus, Ancient Greek pórkos, Old Church Slavonic prase 'pig, piglet', Lithuanian par̃šas, Kurdish purs), from *perk̑- 'to dig'. (Wiktionary)
- Ultimately from Old English fearh, pig. Middle English ferow. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“His earlier description of Ireland, "the old sow that eats her farrow," is acted out in the Circe's disorderly house, where men are figuratively turned into swine.”
“In my book Animal Factory, I write about how farmers in Sweden have developed humane ways for pregnant sows to gestate and "farrow" -- or give birth and nurse their young.”
“Director Roman Polanski hit the zietgeist with this psychological horror classic, in which Mia farrow gives birth to the spawn of Satan.”
“With Sy being a vegetarian and Howard Jewish, the pig was sure to live a long life unlike his farrow.”
“I remember as kid eating farrow porridge for breakfast.. and I got some spelt berries and cooked them and was like..”
“The facility, owned by Agrivest Inc., the largest farrow to finish hog producer in Montgomery County which produces more than 100,000 hogs annually, is still in operation.”
Another Byproduct of Factory Farming: Livestock Incinerating Fires
“Senator Luther Christopher Tucker, Sr., was a member of the Pork Chop Gang, a farrow of rural legislators, in the ′50s and ′60s who took up a disproportionate amount of space at the public trough.”
“And Wendell Davison of Garner grow from a 150-sow, farrow-to-finish operation to 11,000 finishing spaces, over his neighbors 'objections.”
“So far, it has helped farmer Andy Muff of Ventura convert his family's small farrow-to-finish farm to a contract finishing operation replete with a 1,000-head "confinement nursery" and an additional 3,000 pig spaces.”
“So he woke up Birdalone, and they bended their bows both of them, and searched the thicket thereabouts heedfully, arrow on string, but found nought fiercer than a great sow and her farrow.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘farrow’.
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phrontistery - f
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Logolepsy
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Shakespeare.04
indissoluble, braggart, abjure, hoodwink, exasperate, flourish, assay, trammel, farrow, epicure, requite, flee and 3 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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remy, rolf, theobald, jerrick, dray, theade, torfin, roderick, eleazer, keller, leif, melrick and 149 more...
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abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Words gathered while reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
refectory, soutane, ha-ha, jewelly, girt, centenary, collywobbles, coadjutor, catafalque, beeftea, pierhead, bedad and 235 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
discovered while reading this book.
balustrade, desideratum, laity, elysium, lairage, lambing, banjaxed, incontinence, tintack, jamb, hors de combat, nolle prosequi and 75 more...
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baby and neutered animal names
joey, cygnet, calf, kid, pup, cub, fledgling, duckling, fry, gosling, nymph, chick and 62 more...
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