farry

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

Verb

  1. To farrow; to give birth to a litter of piglets.
    • 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. - 1854, John Nock Bagnall, A history of Wednesbury in the county of...
    • 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; - 2010, Simon Murphy, Cox's...

Forms

farries farrying farried