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Meaning of farry | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To farrow; to give birth to a litter of piglets.

Examples

“If two sows happen to farry near the same time together and have fourteen pigs, the vicar takes two, without deduction, and if twenty no more.”
“I have had the misfortune to lose my sow and eleven small pigs, I tried my best, so did the vetinary sic surgeons but it was no good, you see she has a slight cold and this caused her to farry a month before time.”
“Mr. Sadler, of Bentham, about four miles from Cheltenham, had last week a sow which he intended to farry (or pig) before morning – it consequently became necessary that someone should sit up;”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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