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单词 barrow
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barrow1

noun ˈbarəʊˈbɛroʊ
British
  • 1A two-wheeled handcart used especially by street vendors.

    〈英〉(尤指街头小贩使用的)两轮手推车;流动售货车

    they sell fruit from market barrows
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Pete had a lovely barrow, everything at chest height.
    • This was a true family business rooted in Balham, for John's brothers Albert and Billy also manned barrows there, while stallholder Bobby Kelly, who died this year aged 97, was a second cousin.
    • Many market stall operators are second, third or fourth generation families born and bred with the tradition, and have occupied the same pitch with barrows being handed down as part of the legacy.
    • Usually an alley was an access path wide enough to permit passage of a large barrow or cart from a lot in the interior of a block to a street.
    • He started a fruit barrow down the bottom of Queen Street.
    • There were some barrows with a political message, like to one containing just a pile of manure with a sign saying Sponsored by Brussels.
    • Time was getting on, but, fortunately, there was a flower seller's barrow at the end of the footbridge and I stopped and started to select flowers for a handsome bouquet.
    • ‘Dollar, dollar, dollar,’ rang through the air from all directions and people huddled around barrows freshly loaded with the end-of-week bargains.
    • The barrow was used from the 1930s to hold Garsons Farm produce which was sold at Borough Market in London Bridge.
    • Sold from just about every avenue one could imagine (from shops to basements to barrows in the street), the drink played into the prevalent violence and insecurity in a dramatic and disastrous way.
    • Business boomed and soon the McIvers had over 300 barrows.
    • York's seven Visitor Information Patrols are rolling out their barrows and are ready to welcome tourists to the city.
    • The type of market stalls allowable will include, any wheeled or movable stall or box, barrow or cart.
    • A friend of mine had a barrow in Wilton Shopping Centre in Cork but he had nothing to sell.
    • Indeed, I could have loaded them all onto a borrowed costermonger's barrow and shifted them myself if I'd needed to.
    • This man is selling bottles of soft drink from a barrow.
    • He came to a corner, but she was lost in the crowd around a line of street barrows selling clothing and a little food.
    • Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow.
    • In their distinctive uniform, and pushing their information barrows, the Navigators provide everything from directions to city tourist attractions through to where to buy a coffee table.
    • These were all purchased from street barrows when second-hand books were sold at a cost of about sixpence each.
    Synonyms
    handcart, pushcart, trolley, wheelbarrow
    1. 1.1 A wheelbarrow.
      独轮车
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Now Dennis has turned his dream into reality, he believes he is about to cash in on a small fortune from other builders who, like him, are tired of struggling with their barrows.
      • The rink will literally be smashed up, the ice wheeled out in barrows and deposited in an environmentally friendly fashion.
      • Cory hastily drained the bottle, recapped it and laid it in the barrow, then seized the handles.
      • I suspect it's for harvesting turnips - slice underneath, stab with the hook and throw in the barrow - but whatever, it's an vintage piece of kit.
      • He took a short cut across the fields to save 200 yards but had to lift the barrow and its contents over 11 stiles.
      • We diligently found fallen trees and branches, cut them into logs and wheeled them up the hill in the barrow to the hostel.
      • A gardener's wheelbarrow parked outside the Waterlily House had an old Victoria Lily leaf sitting in it (taking up most of the barrow, folded over twice).
      • She gathered two stacks of hay into a wheelbarrow and pushed the barrow to the stall that was vacant.
      • Hundreds of navigators, ‘navvies,’ were employed to dig the canals with only spades, picks, barrows and horse and cart.
      • Little Brother came down the path, wheeling his barrow.
      • I'm pretty sceptical about this system as the dustbin tends to rock forwards and backwards in the barrow splashing everywhere.
      • The children built their own BMX course anyway, on waste ground where it harmed nobody, erecting jumps with barrows and spades.
      • The Croft garden doesn't have many large trees from which we can gather more than a barrow or two of leaves, but of those we do have - rowan and Norway maple - put on a colourful show before leaf-fall.
      • Wheeling barrow loads of cement certainly tickles the old palate as I discovered in one previous existence.
      • When you get to the last trench, fill it with the soil from the barrow.
      • Ireland's popular gardener Gerry Daly dispensed barrows and pots full of helpful information for all types of gardens in a varied and interesting talk in Abbeyleix, Manor Hotel on Thursday last March 23.

Origin

Old English bearwe 'stretcher, bier', of Germanic origin; related to bear1.

Rhymes

arrow, farrow, harrow, Jarrow, marrow, narrow, sparrow, taro, tarot, Varro, yarrow

barrow2

noun ˈbarəʊˈbɛroʊ
Archaeology
  • An ancient burial mound.

    〔考古〕古坟

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There can be few more evocative sites in the British landscape than ancient barrows of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
    • The only comparisons we know are two Early Bronze Age barrows in Northamptonshire, at Irthlingborough, and Gayhurst.
    • In prehistoric Britain early agricultural communities deposited their dead in communal, highly visible locations such as chambered tombs, barrows and burial cairns.
    • Over 50 site types include stone and timber circles, rows, barrows and tombs of all sorts, surviving and destroyed
    • He was at the burial barrows this morning, he remembers.
    • Across Britain and Ireland there are thousands of Iron Age barrows and burial mounds, and hundreds of Iron Age hill forts.
    • As in many monument complexes, burials were inserted into existing mounds, and barrows were built among and onto them.
    • With its prehistoric burial mounds, barrows and encampments, its feudal laws and time-trapped settlements, the New Forest is anything but.
    • Similar Bronze Age cemeteries consisting of many small barrows have been found elsewhere in Essex, for example at Ardleigh and Brightlingsea.
    • Roman-period burials and other finds are fairly common on the sites of Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows.
    • In response, English Heritage funded excavation of the prehistoric barrow mound at Woodnesborough, near Sandwich, in the field where it was uncovered.
    • Human activity on the Plain can be traced back at least 4,000 years - as ancient tracks, barrows (grave-mounds) and field systems testify.
    • But barrows, tombs, sacred springs, stone circles and surviving customs are satisfactory starting points for the study of non-revealed religious or magical rites.
    • Believing that associated cremation burials might be lost, archaeologists cleared the barrow to the top of the original earth mound, which was only 50 cm high.
    • His activities in the field included excavation, digging into barrows around Stonehenge, and his fieldwork at Stonehenge and Avebury was published in two books in 1740 and 1743.
    • Nonetheless, three ring ditches, one definitely a barrow, and cremation and inhumation burials - some placed deliberately in the pit alignments - were found amongst the fields.
    • There's something other-worldly about the Orkney Islands, with its legions of lichen-clad standing stones, which sprout from ancient barrows against the spectacular northern sky.
    • In the west country a few burials of this date in stone-lined cists are known, and around the river Humber a localized tradition of inhumation burials under square barrows developed.
    • The most likely source of destruction is now from badgers which have already caused much damage to barrows, burial sites and other monuments.
    • Throughout his career since leaving Cambridge he pursued an interest in archaeology, at first studying barrows and burial sites and later hillforts.
    Synonyms
    tumulus

Origin

Old English beorg, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch berg, German Berg 'hill, mountain'.

barrow3

noun ˈbarəʊˈbɛroʊ
  • A male pig castrated before maturity.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Members who weigh and tag their pigs from March 31 - April 7 may show one derby pen of three, one derby gilt and one derby barrow.
    • Mackenzie Langemeier won the honor of grand champion Duroc barrow with her 259-pound pig named Rocky. The barrow was purchased from Kent Brattain.
    • Many people recommend a spayed sow for the poor, but I always recommend a barrow pig.

Origin

Old English barg, bearg, of Germanic origin.

barrow1

nounˈberōˈbɛroʊ
  • 1A wheelbarrow.

    独轮车

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I'm pretty sceptical about this system as the dustbin tends to rock forwards and backwards in the barrow splashing everywhere.
    • Cory hastily drained the bottle, recapped it and laid it in the barrow, then seized the handles.
    • He took a short cut across the fields to save 200 yards but had to lift the barrow and its contents over 11 stiles.
    • The rink will literally be smashed up, the ice wheeled out in barrows and deposited in an environmentally friendly fashion.
    • Hundreds of navigators, ‘navvies,’ were employed to dig the canals with only spades, picks, barrows and horse and cart.
    • She gathered two stacks of hay into a wheelbarrow and pushed the barrow to the stall that was vacant.
    • The Croft garden doesn't have many large trees from which we can gather more than a barrow or two of leaves, but of those we do have - rowan and Norway maple - put on a colourful show before leaf-fall.
    • When you get to the last trench, fill it with the soil from the barrow.
    • We diligently found fallen trees and branches, cut them into logs and wheeled them up the hill in the barrow to the hostel.
    • Ireland's popular gardener Gerry Daly dispensed barrows and pots full of helpful information for all types of gardens in a varied and interesting talk in Abbeyleix, Manor Hotel on Thursday last March 23.
    • Now Dennis has turned his dream into reality, he believes he is about to cash in on a small fortune from other builders who, like him, are tired of struggling with their barrows.
    • Little Brother came down the path, wheeling his barrow.
    • A gardener's wheelbarrow parked outside the Waterlily House had an old Victoria Lily leaf sitting in it (taking up most of the barrow, folded over twice).
    • I suspect it's for harvesting turnips - slice underneath, stab with the hook and throw in the barrow - but whatever, it's an vintage piece of kit.
    • Wheeling barrow loads of cement certainly tickles the old palate as I discovered in one previous existence.
    • The children built their own BMX course anyway, on waste ground where it harmed nobody, erecting jumps with barrows and spades.
    1. 1.1 A luggage trolley.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Luggage barrows, guards with whistles and platform seats were gliding past the window on roller-skates.
      • When we had a lull, we used to take a walk up and down the station, collecting cups from the floor, luggage barrows, window sills and every conceivable place.
      • Today's modern carts come in different forms; barrow, hand truck, wagon, wheelbarrow, push cart, handbarrow, handcart or gurney.
      • He said: ‘We thought it was a bike at first, but it turned out to be an old barrow.’
      • I only half worked that day, keeping an eye out for A - 6, making sure I didn't have to cart the barrow to the stair chamber today.
    2. 1.2British A two-wheeled handcart used especially by street vendors.
      〈英〉(尤指街头小贩使用的)两轮手推车;流动售货车
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Business boomed and soon the McIvers had over 300 barrows.
      • Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow.
      • He started a fruit barrow down the bottom of Queen Street.
      • Sold from just about every avenue one could imagine (from shops to basements to barrows in the street), the drink played into the prevalent violence and insecurity in a dramatic and disastrous way.
      • York's seven Visitor Information Patrols are rolling out their barrows and are ready to welcome tourists to the city.
      • Time was getting on, but, fortunately, there was a flower seller's barrow at the end of the footbridge and I stopped and started to select flowers for a handsome bouquet.
      • A friend of mine had a barrow in Wilton Shopping Centre in Cork but he had nothing to sell.
      • In their distinctive uniform, and pushing their information barrows, the Navigators provide everything from directions to city tourist attractions through to where to buy a coffee table.
      • Many market stall operators are second, third or fourth generation families born and bred with the tradition, and have occupied the same pitch with barrows being handed down as part of the legacy.
      • Pete had a lovely barrow, everything at chest height.
      • Indeed, I could have loaded them all onto a borrowed costermonger's barrow and shifted them myself if I'd needed to.
      • These were all purchased from street barrows when second-hand books were sold at a cost of about sixpence each.
      • The barrow was used from the 1930s to hold Garsons Farm produce which was sold at Borough Market in London Bridge.
      • This was a true family business rooted in Balham, for John's brothers Albert and Billy also manned barrows there, while stallholder Bobby Kelly, who died this year aged 97, was a second cousin.
      • This man is selling bottles of soft drink from a barrow.
      • There were some barrows with a political message, like to one containing just a pile of manure with a sign saying Sponsored by Brussels.
      • The type of market stalls allowable will include, any wheeled or movable stall or box, barrow or cart.
      • He came to a corner, but she was lost in the crowd around a line of street barrows selling clothing and a little food.
      • Usually an alley was an access path wide enough to permit passage of a large barrow or cart from a lot in the interior of a block to a street.
      • ‘Dollar, dollar, dollar,’ rang through the air from all directions and people huddled around barrows freshly loaded with the end-of-week bargains.
      Synonyms
      handcart, pushcart, trolley, wheelbarrow

Origin

Old English bearwe ‘stretcher, bier’, of Germanic origin; related to bear.

barrow2

nounˈberōˈbɛroʊ
Archaeology
  • An ancient burial mound.

    〔考古〕古坟

    Example sentencesExamples
    • With its prehistoric burial mounds, barrows and encampments, its feudal laws and time-trapped settlements, the New Forest is anything but.
    • Roman-period burials and other finds are fairly common on the sites of Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows.
    • But barrows, tombs, sacred springs, stone circles and surviving customs are satisfactory starting points for the study of non-revealed religious or magical rites.
    • Human activity on the Plain can be traced back at least 4,000 years - as ancient tracks, barrows (grave-mounds) and field systems testify.
    • Nonetheless, three ring ditches, one definitely a barrow, and cremation and inhumation burials - some placed deliberately in the pit alignments - were found amongst the fields.
    • Throughout his career since leaving Cambridge he pursued an interest in archaeology, at first studying barrows and burial sites and later hillforts.
    • Across Britain and Ireland there are thousands of Iron Age barrows and burial mounds, and hundreds of Iron Age hill forts.
    • There can be few more evocative sites in the British landscape than ancient barrows of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
    • In response, English Heritage funded excavation of the prehistoric barrow mound at Woodnesborough, near Sandwich, in the field where it was uncovered.
    • There's something other-worldly about the Orkney Islands, with its legions of lichen-clad standing stones, which sprout from ancient barrows against the spectacular northern sky.
    • In prehistoric Britain early agricultural communities deposited their dead in communal, highly visible locations such as chambered tombs, barrows and burial cairns.
    • The only comparisons we know are two Early Bronze Age barrows in Northamptonshire, at Irthlingborough, and Gayhurst.
    • As in many monument complexes, burials were inserted into existing mounds, and barrows were built among and onto them.
    • Over 50 site types include stone and timber circles, rows, barrows and tombs of all sorts, surviving and destroyed
    • He was at the burial barrows this morning, he remembers.
    • The most likely source of destruction is now from badgers which have already caused much damage to barrows, burial sites and other monuments.
    • Similar Bronze Age cemeteries consisting of many small barrows have been found elsewhere in Essex, for example at Ardleigh and Brightlingsea.
    • In the west country a few burials of this date in stone-lined cists are known, and around the river Humber a localized tradition of inhumation burials under square barrows developed.
    • Believing that associated cremation burials might be lost, archaeologists cleared the barrow to the top of the original earth mound, which was only 50 cm high.
    • His activities in the field included excavation, digging into barrows around Stonehenge, and his fieldwork at Stonehenge and Avebury was published in two books in 1740 and 1743.
    Synonyms
    tumulus

Origin

Old English beorg, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch berg, German Berg ‘hill, mountain’.

barrow3

nounˈberōˈbɛroʊ
  • A male pig castrated before maturity.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mackenzie Langemeier won the honor of grand champion Duroc barrow with her 259-pound pig named Rocky. The barrow was purchased from Kent Brattain.
    • Members who weigh and tag their pigs from March 31 - April 7 may show one derby pen of three, one derby gilt and one derby barrow.
    • Many people recommend a spayed sow for the poor, but I always recommend a barrow pig.

Origin

Old English barg, bearg, of Germanic origin.

Barrow4

proper nounˈberōˈbɛroʊ
  • A city in north central Alaska, a commercial center on the Arctic Ocean. It is the northernmost US city; population 4,010 (est. 2008). Nearby Point Barrow is the northernmost point in the US.

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