Burrow
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- Rhymes: -ʌrəʊ
- Homophones: borough
Origin
Origin Unknown. Formally, it appears to be a variant of borough, but this sense is not known in Old English burh or in any Germanic cognate languages.
Full definition of burrow
Noun
burrow
(plural burrows)- A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen RabbitBut very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in.
- (mining) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
- Obsolete form of barrow A mound.
- Obsolete form of borough An incorporated town.