dial. Also barf, baurgh, barugh. [mod. northern form of BARROW, ME. bergh, OE. beorh, beorʓ-, mount, hill; perh. influenced by ON. bjarg rock-face, precipice. In sense 3 app. influenced by Ger. berg- mining-.]

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  1.  A detached low ridge or hill.

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1823.  W. Buckland, Reliq. Diluv., 209. Similar ridges, known locally [in Yorkshire] by the name of barfs.

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1855.  Whitby Gloss., s.v., Langbarugh in Cleveland.

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  2.  The steep face of a hill; a road up it.

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1674.  Ray, N. Countr. Wds., Bargh, a Horseway up a steep hill. Yorkshire.

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  † 3.  A mine. Obs. Cf. BARMASTER, BARMOTE.

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1693.  W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 207. A Bargh, i.e. a mine, whereout of metalls are digged.

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