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handbarrow

[ hand-bar-oh ]

noun

  1. a frame with handles at each end by which it is carried.
  2. a handcart.


handbarrow

/ ˈhændˌbærəʊ /

noun

  1. a flat tray for transporting loads, usually carried by two men
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of handbarrow1

First recorded in 1400–50, handbarrow is from the late Middle English word handberwe. See hand, barrow 1
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Example Sentences

A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

He went out, took his handbarrow and wheeled it rapidly away.

In the mean time the watch and the police had arrived, and the murderer under the usual guard was carried on a handbarrow to the hospital.

About one o'clock came one of the generals who were to have dined with her—poor General Fraser—brought upon a handbarrow, mortally wounded.

Porters, hucksters, errand boys went through with basket and handbarrow, passing across aisles and nave before the very screen that shut in choir and altar.

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