wheelbarrow
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- noun
- /ˈwiːlˌbɛroʊ/
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carretilla
- Like fragile folded wings, his hands clutched at the sides of the wheelbarrow as it bounced and rattled.
I wanted to build an overland style bike trailer out of two wheelbarrows.
- I wanted to build an overland style bike trailer out of two wheelbarrows.
- When I was born, he was pushing a wheelbarrow in something called the Youngstown Sheep and Tube Company, a steelmaker.
- He took two barrels, took a plank across it, brought out a wheelbarrow which had money in it and started lending people money on the street.
- Earlier today, climate activists dumped over a dozen wheelbarrows of cow poop in front of the White House to protest Biden's climate plan as bull.
Examples
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When she doubled back, she saw him there with his wheelbarrow and a long-handled shovel.
Fiction book (2000) -
Samuel maneuvered the wheelbarrow beneath a silo and began to mix the feed.
Fiction book (2001) -
You could buy a wheelbarrow, you could buy land.
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How did you even get that wheelbarrow up there?
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The invention makes a regular wheelbarrow more mobile, stable, and easier to use.
Academic text (2001) -
I walk slowly, pushing the wheelbarrow, its wood sides swollen with the wet.
Fiction book (1994) -
Buster is driving the old pickup truck, with the shovels and a wheelbarrow in the back.
Fiction book (1999) -
Stan paid me fifteen cents for every wheelbarrow of dirt I hauled out.
Fiction book (1995) -
Grayden loads three hissing bushel baskets into a wooden wheelbarrow and lumbers wearily home.
Academic text (1994) -
He used a wheelbarrow to carry soil from the garden to the flower bed.
Synonyms
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A small vehicle with wheels that you push or pull to carry things
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A small cart with wheels that you push by hand to carry goods
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A small wheeled cart pushed by hand to carry things
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A small cart with one wheel and two handles for carrying things
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A small wheeled container with handles used in a garden to carry tools or plants
A small box with wheels and a handle for carrying garden soil and tools
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Etymology
Wheelbarrow is simply wheel + barrow, and barrow is related to the old English word bear meaning 'to carry'. So a wheelbarrow is a small cart with one wheel that helps you carry things.