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- noun Plural form of
farrow . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
farrow .
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Examples
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Their trunks at the base measured twenty feet in circumference, and their bark was covered by a network of farrows containing a red, sweet-smelling gum.
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Their trunks at the base measured twenty feet in circumference, and their bark was covered by a network of farrows containing a red, sweet-smelling gum.
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I passed by a moor on my left, then a moory hillock on my right; the way was broken and stony; all traces of the good roads of Wales had disappeared; the habitations which I saw by the way were miserable hovels into and out of which large sows were stalking, attended by their farrows.
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Perhaps I have two farrows of pigs ready for the chapman; perhaps I have ten stones of wool waiting for the factor.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Lying among the farrows, the soldiers slept with the horses, heads bowed, eyes closed.
The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution Mariano Azuela 1912
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They visited the sow and her farrows -- a family group which Captain Cai pronounced to be "very comfortable-lookin '."
Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Otherwise we are in the breeding yards, among the litters and the farrows.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Otherwise we are in the breeding yards, among the litters and the farrows.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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Otherwise we are in the breeding yards, among the litters and the farrows.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Perhaps I have two farrows of pigs ready for the chapman; perhaps I have ten stones of wool waiting for the factor.
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