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barrow

[bar-oh] / ˈbær oʊ /


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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

During his many trips to abandoned mines around mid Wales he has found a child's footprint, hobnail boots, tools, miners' gloves and a 170-year-old barrow "still where the miner originally left it".

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2024

Dr. Obermaier’s survey of the local terrain pointed to the presence of a long barrow, an elongated stone monument to the dead.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2022

Fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire on Dec. 17, 2010 after a local official confiscated his barrow.

From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2022

A man was selling apples from a barrow, and a woman was offering herring with chopped onions.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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