Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BAR'ROW, n.⁴ [Sax. beorg, a hill or hillock; byrgen, a tomb; G. and D. bergen, to conceal, to save.]

A hillock or mound of earth, intended as a repository of the dead. Such barrows are found in England, in the north of the European continent, and in America. They sometimes were formed of stones, and in England called cairns. The barrow answers to the tumulus of the Latins. [See Tomb.]