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farrow1 n (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Breeds) a litter of piglets vb (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Breeds) (of a sow) to give birth to (a litter) [Old English fearh; related to Old High German farah young pig, Latin porcus pig, Greek porkos] farrow2 adj
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) (of a cow) not calving in a given year [from Middle Dutch verwe- (unattested) cow that has ceased to bear; compare Old English fearr ox] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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He would never know how sure a breeder was his new bull--the son of that fine creature he had imported; two cows he had spotted as not paying their board could go on for months eating good alfalfa and bran before a new herdsman might become convinced of their unreadiness to turn the expensive feed into white gold; he had not written down the dates when the sows were to farrow, and they might have litters somewhere around the strawstack and crush half the little pigs. |
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