Barlow Definition

bärlō
noun
An inexpensive, one- or two-bladed pocketknife.
American Heritage
pronoun

The name of several villages in north-eastern England.

Wiktionary

A habitational surname​ originating from one of these villages.

Wiktionary
The name of several towns in the United States, either named after one of the English villages or a person bearing the surname.
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Origin of Barlow

  • After Barlow , the family name of its makers, two brothers in Sheffield, England

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old English bere (“barley”) + hlāw (“hill”) or lēah (“wood,clearing”).

    From Wiktionary

Barlow Sentence Examples

  • He was elected on the 1st of August 1559; but it was difficult to find the requisite four bishops willing and qualified to consecrate him, and not until the 17th of December did Barlow, Scory, Coverdale and Hodgkins perform that ceremony at Lambeth.

  • The English Church derives its orders through Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, who was consecrated in 1559 by William Barlow, bishop-elect of Chichester.

  • We may further take for granted that Barlow was a bishop in the Catholic sense of thQ word.

  • Now if Barlow all this time was not consecrated - and so far the only form of consecration known in England was according to the Roman rite - he would have incurred the penalties of praemunire, let alone the fact that Henry VIII.

  • After the accession of Edward VI., Ferrar was, probably through the influence of Bishop Barlow, appointed chaplain to Protector Somerset, a royal visitor, and bishop of St David's on Barlow's translation to Bath and Wells in 1548.

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Words Starting With

BBABAR

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