Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little pig.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not producing young in a given season or year; -- said only of cows.
- noun A litter of pigs.
- verb To bring forth (young); -- said only of swine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
litter ofpiglets . - verb To give
birth to a (litter of piglets). - adjective Not
pregnant ; not producingyoung (notcalving ) in a givenseason oryear ;barren .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give birth
- noun the production of a litter of pigs
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
James Joyce 1946
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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.
David Kirby: Humane Society Exposes Pig Breeding Horrors -- But It Doesn't Have to Be This Way David Kirby 2010
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Director Roman Polanski hit the zietgeist with this psychological horror classic, in which Mia farrow gives birth to the spawn of Satan.
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With Sy being a vegetarian and Howard Jewish, the pig was sure to live a long life unlike his farrow.
The Good Good Pig (copy) ____Maggie 2008
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With Sy being a vegetarian and Howard Jewish, the pig was sure to live a long life unlike his farrow.
Archive 2008-11-01 ____Maggie 2008
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I remember as kid eating farrow porridge for breakfast.. and I got some spelt berries and cooked them and was like..
FARRO MINESTRONE WITH WINTER SQUASH AND GREENS Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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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.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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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 2008
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And Wendell Davison of Garner grow from a 150-sow, farrow-to-finish operation to 11,000 finishing spaces, over his neighbors 'objections.
From Farm to Fork...and Discarded Carcasses in the Stream 2007
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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.
From Farm to Fork...and Discarded Carcasses in the Stream 2007
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