barrow

Examples

• All

• ♪ Desmond has a barrow in the marketplace ♪ ♪ Molly is a singer with a band ♪ ♪ Desmond says to Molly, "Girl, I like your face"

  Yesterday (2019)

• Is that all you can take in a barrow?

  Belfast (2021)

• A barrow full should do!

  Alice in Wonderland (1999)

• I was thinking that if you sold your fish barrow, and I sold my grandfather's watch, we could buy a boat and go to China.

  Doctor Dolittle (1967)

• I filled the barrow to the brim with soil for the garden project.

• We need to transport a barrow of wood to complete the shed.

• After a long day, he finally emptied the barrow of bricks he had collected.

Synonyms

H

haul

vsbarrow

61 3.3

An amount of things caught or collected at one time

is instead the capacity of one small container, not total collected amount

W

wagonload

vsbarrow

1 3.0

An amount that fills a wagon

is the analogous capacity but for a much smaller single container

B

barrowful

vsbarrow

• UK

8.4

An amount that fills a wheelbarrow

is the capacity measurement for that same single small container

Compounds

B

barrow boy

• Archaic

8.6

A young person who sells goods from a small handcart in a market

B

barrow-boy

• Archaic

9.6

A man who sells fruit and vegetables from a small cart in the street

B

barrow-girl

• Archaic

9.1

A woman who sells fruit and vegetables from a small cart in a street market

B

barrow-man

• Archaic

9.9

A man who sells fruit and vegetables from a small cart in the street

B

barrow-woman

• Archaic

9.9

A woman who sells fruit and vegetables from a small cart in a street market

How Much

truckload

• US

45 2.9

wagonload

1 3.0

cartload

• Informal

2 3.5

barrow

• UK

1 7.2

handful

81 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology