farry

See also: Farry

English

Verb

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;

Anagrams

• Frary, Fryar, fryar