barrows

Definition of barrowsnext
plural of barrow

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Noun
  • Visitors pay between $75 and $90 to choose and cut their own trees, with saws and wheelbarrows provided.
    Sophie Caldwell, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Outsize portraits of all three are hauled down endless streets as crowds of obligatory fans parade their wheelbarrows, shovels and carbines.
    Will Tizard, Variety, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • For those in the eastern half of the country, this winter seemed like an endless slog of frigid temperatures and stubbornly persistent snow piles.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Warner recommends checking outdoor areas carefully before gardening or reaching into brush or firewood piles.
    Cierra Morgan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Do not follow large vehicles closely - Large vehicles like trucks or buses can create a spray of water that can reduce your visibility.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The development of the vehicles is part of a larger trend in which robotic vehicles are being used to tackle tasks that endanger humans, such as the autonomous electric coal-mining trucks released last year in Mongolia, and the mine-clearing robots made by Croatian firm, DOK-ING.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Remnants of shell middens (high mounds of shells accumulated from long term group settlement) can still be found within the reserve.
    Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Followers of the Hopewell tradition constructed the Toolesboro mounds.
    Michael Plummer, Des Moines Register, 1 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Volkspele were historical cosplay events for preteens, musical re-enactments of the Great Trek — the 19th-century migration of Afrikaner settlers away from British rule, heading inland in ox-wagons, that has been mythologized through tales of women and children crossing the Drakensberg barefoot.
    Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The Canadiens earned their NHL-leading 20th circle-the-wagons win after the Ducks, who had 19, rallied to topple them 6-5 in a shootout 22 hours earlier.
    Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The Park Service recommends that people not disturb, knock down or add to cairns, though some parks caution visitors not to rely on them as official pathways.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Above the glacial lake Ullswater, prehistoric cairns and burial mounds dot the high moorland, including the Cockpit Stone Circle, which spans 90 feet.
    Andrea Bussell, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Even the rolling carts served as extensions of people’s accessories.
    Jennelle Fong Contributing Photographer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Someone stole two full carts of groceries for a loss of approximately $1,200.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Carcasses of trees are piled up like pyres in one; in another, they are laid flat like a mass grave.
    Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Varanasi was quite an experience, seeing the funeral pyres.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2026
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“Barrows.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barrows. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.

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