wheelbarrow

From Middle English whelbarwe; equivalent to wheel +‎ barrow.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwil.bæɹ.oʊ/

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wheelbarrow (plural wheelbarrows)

1. A small, one-wheeled (or rarely, two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads.

   Synonym: (if two-wheeled) truck

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.

   • 2022 July 13, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Fareham Tunnel blockade aids landslip prevention”, in RAIL, number 961, page 32:

     The line was built by navvies using little more than wheelbarrows and shovels, with whatever material was close at hand, and the railway suffered from earthworks problems right from the start.

• drunk as a wheelbarrow
• wheelbarrow race

• barrow

wheelbarrow (third-person singular simple present wheelbarrows, present participle wheelbarrowing, simple past and past participle wheelbarrowed)

1. (transitive) To convey in a wheelbarrow.
2. (transitive, aviation) To cause the weight of an aeroplane to become concentrated around the nosewheel.