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barrow

[bar-oh] / ˈbær oʊ /


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It revealed a Bronze Age barrow - an ancient burial mound - with the cremated bones of several people contained inside five closely-packed urns.

From BBC Dec. 18, 2025

Aged 15, he was selling mobile phone accessories from a barrow in the capital Lagos and sending money home.

From BBC Mar. 23, 2023

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

I caught hold of the handles of the barrow and was barely able to lift it; it weighed perhaps four times as much as I did.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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