farrow — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A litter of piglets.

   Esempi

   Aha! I know you, gammer! Hamlet, revenge! The old sow that eats her farrow!

   At full speed he ran into a pigsty, where a sow was lying on her side with a farrow of eleven tugging at her.

   Altri esempi (1)

   She is the womb and the tomb: the sow that eats her farrow.

Verbo

1. To give birth to (a litter of piglets).

   Esempi

   The members of a particular family refuse to eat pig, because they owe their existence to a sow, which farrowed babies and little pigs at the same birth.

Aggettivo

1. Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren.

   Uso

   • not-comparable
   • of cows

Sostantivo

1. the production of a litter of pigs

   Sinonimi

   farrowing

   Termini più generali

   parturitionbirthgiving birthbirthing

Verbo

1. give birth to (piglets)

   Sinonimi

   pig

   Termini più generali

   give birthdeliverbearbirthhave

   Esempi

   sows farrow