Handbarrow

Quick meaning: Handbarrow is a noun meaning A frame, supported by poles, used for carrying things; similar to a litter or stretcher.

Meaning

A frame, supported by poles, used for carrying things; similar to a litter or stretcher.

More Meanings

1. Any wheeled cart or box propelled by hand.

Example Sentences

Here they went with a kind of Hand-Barrow, and lay’d the Dead Bodies on it, and carry’d them out to the Carts;

[…] they framed a thing like a hand barrow and carryed this selfe-helpelesse person on their bare shoulders twelve miles to his residence:

The next conveyance (which, indeed, is the most general) is the costermonger’s hand-barrow. These are very light in their make, with springs terminating at the axle.

“I am to have it [my harp] to-morrow; but how do you think it is to be conveyed? Not by a waggon or cart;—Oh! no, nothing of that kind could be hired in the village. I might as well have asked for porters and a hand-barrow.”

Word Forms

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Synonyms for handbarrow

Depending on context, synonyms include handcart.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include barra, barrowload, hackbarrow, barrowman, barrowful, apple-cart.

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