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/wˈilbˌɛroʊ/ /hwˈilbˌɛroʊ/ Listen

Wheelbarrow

noun

A cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels. Synonyms: barrow, garden cart, lawn cart.

verb

Transport in a wheelbarrow.

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"Wheelbarrow" Quotes from Famous Books

... I know all about his breeding—by Stormcloud out of Frippery—but he never ran to his breeding before. The way he ran for Jimmy Miles you'd have thought he was by a steam roller out of a wheelbarrow. What in Sam Hill have you been doing to him—sprinkling ...

— Old Man Curry - Race Track Stories • Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

... push a wheelbarrow with his pale mother in it, and his two little sisters trudging at his side. A peasant with his two girls driving their lean, dejected cows back to some unknown pasture. A bony horse tugging at a wagon heaped ...

— The Valley of Vision • Henry Van Dyke

... was one of a party of wits, and drank her grandson's health in a bottle of choice gooseberry, proposing it in a "neat and appropriate" speech, which gave rise to much uproarious mirth and delight. At last the feast was over; the children retired to amuse themselves with a horse and a wheelbarrow—some of the birthday gifts—in the back garden (a wilderness resigned to their ravages), and Mrs. Liddell and ...

— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander

... two which are usable," laughed Janice. "Come on, Marty. Let's rake the front yard all over. You know it will please your mother. And then you can tote the rubbish away in the wheelbarrow while I trim the edges of the ...

— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long

... day in Russia a thousand employees took their employer away from his desk, chucked him into a wheelbarrow at the door, rolled him home through the crowds in the streets and ...

— The Ghost in the White House • Gerald Stanley Lee

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