farry

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farry (third-person singular simple present farries, present participle farrying, simple past and past participle farried)

  1. To farrow; to give birth to a litter of piglets.
    • 1854, John Nock Bagnall, A history of Wednesbury in the county of Stafford, page 55:
      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.
    • 1913, Merry Kimber, (Letter to Cecil Sharp):
      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.
    • 2010, Simon Murphy, Cox's Fragmenta: An Historical Miscellany, page 118:
      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;

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