barra

plural barras

1. GeordieA barrow; a hand-pushed cart of the type commonly used in markets.

plural barras

1. AustraliaA barramundi.

   ‘Nice fish,’ Norm said, looking at four charred-baked barra covered in fire ash stuffed into the bucket.

   2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 281

1. An island of Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

1. A district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where most venues of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics were situated.

1. A place in the Gambia.

   I got used to seeing Lamin’s disembodied head in a corner, smiling at me, streaming at us live from, I presumed, the only internet café in Barra.

   2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, pages 300–301

1. A barangay of the city of Lucena, Quezon, Philippines.

1. Barrow-in-Furness. A town in Barrow parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, historically in Lancashire.