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wheelbarrow

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wheelbarrow
a simple vehicle for carrying small loads, typically being an open container supported by a wheel at the front and two legs and two handles behind

wheelbarrow [′wēl‚barĀ·ō]
(engineering)
A small, hand-pushed vehicle with a single wheel and axle between the front ends of two shafts that support a boxlike body and serve as handles at the rear. Also known as barrow.

wheelbarrow
A handcart usually fitted with one wheel in front and two supporting legs in back; and with two handles; used for transporting materials over short distances.


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I am going to bring them into the market and sell them to the Burgomaster's daughter, and buy back my wheelbarrow with the money.
But presently, as nothing happened, he came out, and climbed upon a wheelbarrow, and peeped over.
Shifting the barrow from my hand to his, he told me a funny story about the first wheelbarrow he had ever seen.
 
 
 
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