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

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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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