farrow: [OE] Farrow, nowadays used mainly as a verb for ‘give birth to a litter of pigs’, originally meant ‘young pig’. Its ultimate source was Indo- European *porkos (from which English also gets pork). The Germanic descendant of this was *farkhaz, which produced German ferkel ‘young pig’ and Dutch varken ‘pig’ (as in aardvark, literally ‘earth-pig’, originally from Afrikaans) as well as farrow. => aardvark, pork
farrow (n.)
Old English fearh "young pig," from Proto-Germanic *farkhaz "young pig" (cognates: Middle Low German ferken, Dutch varken, both diminutives; Old High German farh, German Ferkel "young pig, suckling pig"), from PIE *porko- (see pork (n.)). Sense of "a litter of pigs" first recorded 1570s, probably via the verb ("to bring forth piglets," of a sow), which is attested from early 13c.
实用例句
1. They planned to have the gilts farrow down about the end of this month.
他们计划让母猪约在本月底下仔.
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2. Our sow had 15 at one farrow.
我们的母猪一胎下了15个小猪.
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3. Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
爱尔兰就像是吞食自己小猪的母猪.
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4. One kind of operation is called a farrow - to - wean farm.
有一种养殖方式叫从产崽到断奶养殖场.
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5. Again a diagonal farrows works exactly the same as a normal farrow.
