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to farrow

to farrow

1 9.9
To give birth to piglets
  • verb
  • /ˈfɛroʊ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : parir
  • In the spring, many sows on the farm are expected to farrow and produce new piglets.
  • sows that farrow

Examples

  • I worked with these hogs every day, from farrowing houses to the finishing barn, until the day we loaded them onto the truck to take to the hog market.

    Blog text (14)

  • The farmer waited eagerly for his sow to farrow, hoping for a healthy litter of piglets.

  • Well, 1,000 hogs farrowed are conditioned to eat.

    A Thousand Acres (1997)

  • - See, The sow has only farrowed the week before, And it was the runt of the litter.

    The Dead (1987)

  • After carefully monitoring her condition, the sow finally farrowed early in the morning.

Synonyms

to pig
vsto farrow
  • Specialized
9.9

To give birth to baby pigs

is the same meaning but differs only in word form

Surface Forms

farrow infinitive
farrowed past
farrowed past participle
farrowing present participle
farrows third person singular

Etymology

As a verb, farrow comes from the same old farming word and means 'to give birth to piglets', so when a sow farrows she has a litter of piglets.