barrow
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The barrow was among 11 Anglo-Saxon burial mounds dating to the 6th to 7th Centuries.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026
"Is that a marrow on your barrow, Clara?"
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
They were attempting to determine whether the barrow — originally 41 feet high and 230 feet in diameter — harbored a ship, as scholars had long suspected.
From New York Times • May 31, 2024
Fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire on Dec. 17, 2010 after a local official confiscated his barrow.
From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2022
At noon I sneaked into the yard and walked among the aisles of damp, cleansmelling clay and came to a barrow full of wet bricks just taken from the machine that shaped them.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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