barrows

Ancient grave hills

Barrows is the plural of barrow, which has two distinct meanings.

A barrow is a wheelbarrow or similar hand-pushed cart: The gardener loaded the barrows with mulch.

Separately, a barrow is an ancient burial mound, a rounded hill covering a grave or tomb: Bronze Age barrows dot the English countryside.

burial

tumulus

Ancient burial mound

  • graveSerious and worrying
  • tombUnderground chamber for remains
  • moundHeaped earth formation

cairn · interment · sepulcher · crypt · cemetery · necropolis · funerary · ancestors · chambered · passage

cart

handcart

Manual two-wheeled vehicle

  • trolleyWheeled cart or railcar
  • pushcartManual wheeled vendor vehicle
  • haulPull or carry laboriously

load · garden · construction · carrier · trundle · wheel · handles · tray · tip · dump

agriculture

pig

Domesticated swine for meat

boar · livestock · piglet · sow · pork · farm · husbandry · breeding · farrowing · gilt

Categories
Opposites
mechanization/scale of transport

barrowsflatbed trucks

Vehicles with level cargo areas

lorries · dump trucks · forklifts · heavy machinery · cranes

burial architecture

barrowscatacombs

Underground cemetery passages

crypts · mausoleums · sepulchres · vaults · graves

reproductive status in swine

barrowsboars

Male swine, often tusked

studs · gilts · sows

Phrases
Family

wheelbarrow, barrow

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G