Definition for BAR'ROW

BAR'ROW, n.2 [Sax. berga, or beorgh, a hog; D. barg, a barrow hog.]

  1. In England, a hog; and according to Ash, obsolete. Barrow-grease is hog's lard.
  2. In America, a male hog castrated; a word in common use.

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