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wheelbarrows

  • plural
    of wheelbarrow.
    wheelbarrow
    noun
    a frame or box for conveying a load, supported at one end by a wheel or wheels, and lifted and pushed at the other by two horizontal shafts.
  • present tense form
    of wheelbarrow (3rd person singular).
    wheelbarrow
    noun
    a frame or box for conveying a load, supported at one end by a wheel or wheels, and lifted and pushed at the other by two horizontal shafts.

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Sargent said his client was sorry, adding that the mixer and wheelbarrows were returned undamaged.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026

David Matthew Pugh, from Llainwen Isaf in Llanberis, Gwynedd, admitted to taking a cement mixer and two wheelbarrows in the middle of the night on 5 December.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026

They describe a man with a good sense of humor who was kind to visiting children and pushed them around in wheelbarrows for fun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

“It’s being able to take a step back really from football and saying I’m a human first, how can I help other people,” he said after mixing and moving wheelbarrows full of cement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025

He brought rocks in wheelbarrows for undertakers to bury and carried away the deceased.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead