handbarrow
Americannoun
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a frame with handles at each end by which it is carried.
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a handcart.
noun
Etymology
Origin of handbarrow
First recorded in 1400–50, handbarrow is from the late Middle English word handberwe. See hand, barrow 1
Example Sentences
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He went out, took his handbarrow and wheeled it rapidly away.
From The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 by Sue, Eug?ne
Just ten minutes later the door opened, and in came a handbarrow, upon which stood the body of the coach.
From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
The communication trench we found to be one of the widest we had ever seen; a handbarrow could have been wheeled along the floor.
From The Red Horizon by MacGill, Patrick
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.
From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Bevan, Tom
Presently a handbarrow rumbled and creaked, as West—the head gardener, last surviving relic of Thomas Clarkson Verity's reign—wheeled it from beneath the ilex trees towards the battery, leaving dark smudgy tracks upon the spangled turf.
From Deadham Hard by Malet, Lucas
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