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English : habitational name from a lost place, Wadlow in Toddington, Bedfordshire, named with the Old English personal name Wada + Old English hlÄw ‘hill’, ‘barrow’.
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English (mainly Yorkshire)
English (mainly Yorkshire) : habitational name from Barrowclough near Halifax in West Yorkshire, named with Old English bearu ‘grove’ + clÅh ‘ravine’.
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English : topographic name from the plural of Middle English how ‘barrow’ (see Howe 1)English : possibly a variant of House.English : patronymic from Hugh.
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English : probably a variant of Barrows.
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from an unidentified place. There is a hill in Somerset called Leather Barrow.Thomas Leatherbury (1622–73), from Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, arrived in MD in or before 1645, and settled in Accomack Co., VA.
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English : habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Old English bearo, bearu ‘grove’ (dative bear(o)we, bearuwe), for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Suffolk, and Somerset, or a topographic name with the same meaning.English : topographic name for someone who lived by an ancient burial mound, Middle English berwe, barwe, or a habitational name from a place named with this word (Old English beorg, dative beorge), of which there is one near Leicester and another in Somerset.English : habitational name from Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, which is named with an unattested Celtic word, barr, here meaning ‘promontory’, + Old Norse ey ‘island’.
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English : variant of Borrowman.
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English : habitational name from a place in South Yorkshire near Rotherham, named in Old English with the genitive case of an unattested personal name Tynni + hlÄw ‘hill’, ‘mound’, ‘barrow’. This name is also established in Ulster.
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English (West Country)
English (West Country) : habitational name from any of the forty or so places in southwestern England called Beer(e) or Bear(e). Most of these derive their names from the West Saxon dative case, beara, of Old English bearu ‘grove’, ‘wood’ (the standard Old English dative bearwe being preserved in Barrow). Some may be from Old English bÇ£r ‘swine pasture’.North German and Dutch : from Middle Low German bÄre, Middle Dutch bÄ“re ‘bear’, applied as a nickname for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way, or as a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept a performing bear. Alternatively, it could have been a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a bear, or from a Germanic personal name with this as the first element. See also Baer, Bahr.Respelling of Swiss German Bier.
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English and French : nickname for a reckless person, from Middle English, Old French baiard, baiart ‘foolhardy’ (the name—a derivative of baie ‘reddish brown’—of the magnificent but reckless horse given to Renaud by Charlemagne, according to medieval romances).English and French : metonymic occupational name for a carrier, from Middle English, Old French baiard, baiart ‘hand barrow’, ‘open cart’.English and French : A Huguenot family of this name migrated from France to Antwerp in the 16th century. In 1647 Anna Bayard, widow of Samuel Bayard, and her three young children accompanied her brother Peter Stuyvesant to New Amsterdam aboard the Princess. Her sons Petrus and Nicolas Bayard, both born in Alphen, Netherlands, had many prominent descendants in North America. Peter Stuyvesant’s wife Judith was a Bayard.
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English (East Midlands)
English (East Midlands) : habitational name from a place in Derbyshire named Brailsford, possibly from an Old English word brægels, a metathesized form of bærgels, itself a byform of byrgels ‘tumulus’, ‘barrow’, + ford ‘ford’.
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English : habitational name from Winslow, a place in Buckinghamshire named from the genitive case of the Old English personal name or byname Wine (meaning ‘friend’) + Old English hlÄw ‘hill’, ‘mound’, ‘barrow’.Edward Winslow (1595–1655), one of the founders of the Plymouth Colony who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620, was born in Droitwich, Worcestershire, England. He was a governor of the colony and also served as agent of the Massachusetts Bay Company in France. In 1621 he married Susanna, the widow of William White, the first marriage in New England. Their son Josiah (c.1629–80) was governor of Plymouth Colony from 1673 to 1680, the first native-born governor in North America. He had numerous prominent descendents.
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English : topographic name for someone who lived by a grove (see Barrow 1) or an ancient burial mound (see Barrow 2).
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English : topographic name for someone who lived by a small hill or a man-made mound or barrow, Middle English how (Old Norse haugr), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as Howe in Norfolk and North Yorkshire.English : variant of Hugh.Jewish (American) : Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.Americanized form of Norwegian Hove.
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A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.
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A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.
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The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading.
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A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.
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A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.
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A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.
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An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.
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A small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.
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A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
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A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
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A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common.
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A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.
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A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
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A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
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A hog, esp. a male hog castrated.