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barney

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barney [′bär·nē]
(mining engineering)
A small car or truck, attached to a rope or cable, used to push cars up a slope or an inclined plane. Also known as bullfrog; donkey; groundhog; larry; mule; ram; truck.
barney - In Commonwealth hackish, "barney" is to fred as bar is to foo. That is, people who commonly use "fred" as their first metasyntactic variable will often use "barney" second. The reference is, of course, to Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble in the Flintstones cartoons.


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And Barney entered into the hell of education that later won his purchaser more time than he could deliver over the best vaudeville circuits in Canada and the United States.
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Whin I was about three-quarters av a mile off the rest-camp, powtherin' along fit to burrst, I heard the noise av the men, an', on my sowl, Sorr, I cud catch the voice av Peg Barney bellowin' like a bison wid the belly-ache.
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This establishment was under the care of two slaves--old Barney and young Barney--father and son.
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