farry

present singular third person farries · participle present farrying · participle past farried · past farried

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 Stafford, page 55

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   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.

   1913, Merry Kimber, (Letter to Cecil Sharp)

   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 Fragmenta: An Historical Miscellany, page 118

plural Farrys

1. A surname from Irish.