Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A litter of pigs.
- transitive v. To give birth to (a litter of pigs).
- intransitive v. To produce a litter of pigs.
- adj. Not pregnant. Used of a cow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- 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.
from The 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. give birth
- n. the production of a litter of pigs
Etymologies
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.
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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
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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.
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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..
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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