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borrow noun.
[Old English borg = Old Frisian borg, Middle High German borc pledge, from Germanic; rel. to Old English beorgan (see next). Sense 4 from BORROW verb1.]
A pledge; a guarantee, bail; a ransom. Long arch. exc. Scots Law. OE.
law-borrow(s): see LAW noun1.
A surety; a person who stands bail. Long arch. OE.
Hist. A frank-pledge, a tithing. L16.
A borrowing. rare in gen. sense. E17.
b. Golf. A borrowing to allow for the slope of the green etc.; the amount borrowed. M19.
Comb.: borrow-head Hist. = BORSHOLDER; borrow-hole, borrow-pit: made by removing material for use in embanking etc.