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A mountain.
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A hill.
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A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
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A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
Examples of barrow in a Sentence
Another tomb in this region, Melgunov's barrow, found as long ago as 1760, contained a dagger-sheath and pommel of Assyrian work and Greek things of the 6th century.
A Saxon barrow was opened near the town in 1824.
Sometimes, instead of a chamber formed above ground, the barrow covered a pit excavated for the interment under the original surface.
Both were erected to defend the ford of the Barrow.
The range of latitude from Point Barrow in the Arctic Ocean to Cape Muzon is almost 17 degrees - as great as from New Orleans to Duluth; the range of longitude from Attu Island to the head of Portland Canal is 58 degrees - considerably greater than from New York to San Francisco.
It is reported that in his examination for a scholarship at Trinity, to which he was elected on the 28th of April 1664, he was examined in Euclid by Dr Isaac Barrow, who formed a poor opinion of his knowledge, and that in consequence Newton was led to read the Elements again with care, and thereby to form a more favourable estimate of Euclid's merits.
He wrote a paper Analysis per Equationes Numero Terminorum Infinitas, which he put, probably in June 1669, into the hands of Isaac Barrow (then Lucasian professor of mathematics), at the same time giving him permission to communicate the contents to their common friend John Collins (1624-1683), a mathematician of no mean order.
Barrow did this on the 31st of July 1669, but kept the name of the author a secret, and merely told Collins that he was a friend staying at Cambridge, who had a powerful genius for such matters.
In a subsequent letter on the 10th of August, Barrow expressed his pleasure at hearing the favourable opinion which Collins had formed of the paper, and added, " the name of the author is Newton, a fellow of our college, and a young man, who is only in his second year since he took the degree of master of arts, and who, with an unparalleled genius (eximio quo est acumine), has made very great progress in this branch of mathematics."
His sincere piety made him the intimate friend of Isaac Barrow, Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Wilkins and Bishop Stillingfleet, as well as of the Nonconformist leader, Richard Baxter.
Waterford Harbour is a winding and well-sheltered bay formed by the estuary of the river Suir, and afterwards by the joint estuary of the Nore and Barrow.
By the Suir there is navigation for barges to Clonmel, and for sailing vessels to Carrick-on-Suir; by the Barrow for sailing vessels to New Ross and thence for barges to Athy, and so to Dublin by a branch of the Grand Canal; and by the Nore for barges to Inistioge.
It was owing to the existence of this ore that the town of Barrow grew up in the 19th century; at first as a port from which the ore was exported to South Wales, while later furnaces were established on the spot, and acquired additional importance on the introduction of the Bessemer process, which requires a non-phosphoric ore such as is found here.
The district is served by the main line of the Furness railway, from Carnforth (junction with the London & North-Western railway), passing the pleasant watering-place of Grange, and approximately following the coast by Ulverston, Dalton and Barrow, with branches to Lake Side, Windermere, and to Coniston.
Lastly, rising in the Slieve Bloom or neighbouring mountains, the Suir, Nore and Barrow follow widely divergent courses to the south to unite in Waterford harbour.
The Barrow Navigation connects a branch of the Grand canal with the tidal part of the river Barrow.
The banks of the rivers Shannon, Suir, Nore, Barrow and Bann are lined with long stretches of flat lands capable of producing fine crops.
Benedictine foundations existed at Ikanho, Barrow, Bardney, Partney and Crowland as early as the 7th century, but all were destroyed in the Danish wars, and only Bardney and Crowland were ever rebuilt.
The Barrow is crossed by an iron bridge with a swivel pillar in the centre on which a portion of the bridge is turned to admit the passage of vessels.
The inland water communications reach to Dublin by means of the Barrow and the Grand Canal.
The urban district of New Ross includes Rosbercon, on the opposite side of the Barrow.
At a short distance from the town is a moated Elizabethan half-timbered house, and also an ancient barrow of great extent.
Chad built a monastery at Barrow in Lincolnshire and fixed his see at Lichfield.
A typical barrow, in effect, is more like an ' orgone accumulator ' than an electrostatic accumulator.
Now I off back south to help excavate a round barrow on the last prehistoric dig of the summer for me.
Whilst transporting the heavy bouncy castle on the sack barrow across the car park going between various parked cars.
With a good hard bottom, you could try using a wheel barrow.
In the first phase a round barrow was created with material dug from two ditches to either side of the mound.
There is a prehistoric barrow or burial mound near the farm which would have stood alongside the trackway.
Any plans to excavate a selected oval barrow would need to await the outcome of the initial study and the identification of suitable examples.
Stukeley's ' long barrow ' is actually a natural feature.
Were the Wessex chieftains the ` barrow boys ' of the Bronze Age economy?
This completed, twelve chieftains rode around the barrow, reciting an elegy and speaking of their heroic king.
For more information barrow boys in America co-chair jack.
Gazetteers ask for the gazetteers ask for the gazetteer for a calculation of the distance from Barrow in Furness to another place.
The area has been transformed into a lovely woodland glade, exposing the obvious ditch and mound formation of the round barrow.
A smaller hydraulic ram ejected the blocks from the molds, after which they were placed on a barrow and wheeled away.
The barrow is certainly a very indistinct one in long heather.
The stone was erected beside a long barrow, an ancient burial mound, which was built on the top of the hill.
We have started to excavate the turf core of the barrow mound.
Many were sent North to Scotland where they were then given a barrow and became ' hokey pokey ' men.
We visit the neolithic long barrow of Stoney Littleton near Bath, which is aligned to the winter solstice sunrise.
Two cremations were found in large collared urns on either side of the barrow.
The barrow contains two urns, found about 4 ft. apart, at a depth of 4ft.
Brown looked sharply back at the road behind him; the man with the barrow had suddenly vanished.
Oh, for the flimsy pensioners and truculent barrow boys of yesteryear - whither the legions of faint hearted English whimsy?
These two had a slight amount of flash but nowhere near as much as some barrow wights which was quite a relief!
A Latin version of them was published by Isaac Barrow in 1675 (London, 4to); Nicolas Tartaglia published in Latin the treatises on Centres of Gravity, on the Quadrature of the Parabola, on the Measurement of the Circle, and on Floating Bodies, i.
The alignment of Kermario points to the dolmen of Kercado (Place of St Cado), where there is also a barrow, explored in 1863; and to the south-east of Menec stands the great tumulus of Mont St Michel, which measures 377 ft.
But of organized churches we can trace none in England, until we come in 1586 to Greenwood and Barrow, the men whose devotion to a cause in which they felt the imperative call of God seems to have rallied into church-fellowship the Separatists in London, whether those of Fytz's day or those later convinced by the failure of the Puritan efforts at reform and by the writings of Browne.