Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flat rectangular tray or cart with carrying poles at each end, used in transporting loads.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of litter or stretcher, sometimes flat, sometimes trough-shaped, with handles at each end, carried between two persons.
- noun In gunnery, a frame used to carry shot and shell.
- noun A wheel-barrow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
frame , supported bypoles , used for carrying things
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rectangular frame with handles at both ends; carried by two people
Etymologies
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Examples
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Potter and Injun Joe were carrying a handbarrow with a rope and
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Cashel waited for two porters carrying a handbarrow and a woman with a large wicker basket of washing to pass the obstruction going the other way.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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A pair of porters holding a handbarrow between them stared in horror.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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Porters, hucksters, errand boys went through with basket and handbarrow, passing across aisles and nave before the very screen that shut in choir and altar.
Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan
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When the last coffin came alone upon the handbarrow, Crofts accompanied it, followed by two little girls.
The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens
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The equivalent of a dollar to a dollar-fifty a week in rent was sometimes a fifth of a worker's salary, and when one of these Ebenezer Scrooge slumlords decided to raise the rent, sometimes a large family found itself homeless with nothing but a handbarrow to tote away all its worldly goods.
Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930
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The communication trench we found to be one of the widest we had ever seen; a handbarrow could have been wheeled along the floor.
The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926
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Exactly before the opening, however, stood a melancholy impedimenta handbarrow, placed upon the ground, on which two monatti were laying out a poor creature to bear him away: it was the head of the customhouse officers, in whom the plague had been discovered just before.
Chapter XXXIV 1909
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The first one was put upon a long handbarrow, over which the captain had previously spread a tablecloth, and, followed by the ladies, was deposited by the side of the body of Red.
Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881
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Potter and Injun Joe were carrying a handbarrow with a rope and a couple of shovels on it.
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