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
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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 Lucas Malet
A handbarrow is now brought, on which is placed the gardener, with a spade, a cord, and a large basket.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 by William Chambers
A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
When the last coffin came alone upon the handbarrow, Crofts accompanied it, followed by two little girls.
From The Old Homestead by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Our trunks were put into a handbarrow, and wheeled by two men a few hundred yards, the whole occupying half an hour of time.
From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper
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