noun
barrow
BA-roh
noun
1
A small cart with a single wheel, pushed by hand; a wheelbarrow.
"He wheeled a barrow of bricks across the yard."
"Market traders piled fruit high on their barrows."
2
An ancient burial mound of earth or stones.
"Archaeologists uncovered pottery inside the Bronze Age barrow."
How to Use Barrow
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishEither a hand cart for moving loads, or an ancient earth mound used as a grave.
Common mistake
The burial-mound sense and the wheeled-cart sense are unrelated in modern use even though they share a spelling — context makes clear which is meant.
Word Forms
barrows plural, barrows plural, barrows plural, barrows plural, Barrows plural
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Etymology
From Old English beorg ("hill, mound, burial place"), related to the modern word "berg" as in "iceberg."