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A cart for carrying small loads
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wheelbarrow
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels [syn: barrow , garden cart , lawn cart ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After his trial the Quaker was chained to a wheelbarrow and twice beaten by a Negro slave until he collapsed. ▪ Camels, vehicles, even wheelbarrows give equanimity in the desert. ▪ I clambered on to the wheelbarrow , to pray ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A wheelbarrow is a small hand-propelled vehicle, usually with just one wheel , designed to be pushed and guided by a single person using two handles at the rear, or by a sail to push the ancient wheelbarrow by wind. The term "wheelbarrow" is made of two ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wheelbarrow \Wheel"bar`row\, n. A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A small, one-wheeled (rarely two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To convey in a wheelbarrow. 2 (context transitive aviation English) To cause the weight of an aeroplane to become ...
Usage examples of wheelbarrow.
The Duchesse de Luynes allowed the special wheelbarrow she had had made in acajou to be wheeled by the flower girls who were her teammates.
When he has a reasonable heap of broken charcoal, he sets aside the adz and shovels the charcoal into the wheelbarrow.
After two more swings with the adz, he sets it aside and lifts the shovel, scooping up perhaps a third of what he has broken and dropping the shovelful into the wheelbarrow.
Henpecked Ho I shoveled the largest pieces of the Ancestress into a wheelbarrow and trundled them to the kennels and fed them to the dogs.
Hence, if we are mining it further away, we will be collecting the bauxite with pickaxe and shovel, carrying it out of the mine by wheelbarrow, hoist, or mine car, and shipping it to the processing plant by pack mule, wagon, barge or ship.
A door or a gate serves its purpose by an application wholly foreign to itself, but it is a good and effective, or a bad and ineffective, piece of construction, independently of the posts to which it may be hung, whilst the wheel of a wheelbarrow, comprising felloes, spokes and axletree, is a piece of construction complete in itself, and independent as such of everything beyond it.
Motors and cycles he treated with tolerant disregard, but pigs, wheelbarrows, piles of stones by the roadside, perambulators in a village street, gates painted too aggressively white, and sometimes, but not always, the newer kind of beehives, turned him aside from his tracks in vivid imitation of the zigzag course of forked lightning.
It was Pilau who took the hefty batteries from the coun cilhouse kitchen, trundling them back and forth one at a time in a wheelbarrow for each test.
He had come up from the lowveld, following the railway tracks till he found this place, pushing his wheelbarrow on which he had loaded a pot and a pan and some bedding and a few tools.
But even in a Cathedral town, even after midnight, several successive expeditions of a lay precentor with a wheelbarrow full of quicklime would have been apt to attract the comment of some belated physician, some cleric coming from a sick bed, or some local roysterers.
I put Logan in a wheelbarrow and pushed him back up the farm lane to get more apples, frowning and chewing my tongue as I went.
Stanley, Zigzag, and Magnet dug in the holes, and Zero, Armpit, and Squid shoveled the excavated dirt into the wheelbarrows.
They were finishing up for the day, gathering up their tools, tossing trowels and kneepads into their buckets, spades and rakes into the wheelbarrows for the trek back to the trailer.
One of the Barkers was pushing a wheelbarrow that, because it was heavy-laden with libels, kept getting stuck in the muck.
Thomas Button tipped his laden wheelbarrow onto the muckheap, before striding jauntily back across the yard towards her.