handbarrow

Noun

handbarrow (plural handbarrows)

1. A frame, supported by poles, used for carrying things; similar to a litter or stretcher.
   • […] they framed a thing like a hand barrow and carryed this selfe-helpelesse person on their bare shoulders twelve miles to his residence:1634, William Wood, chapter 7, in New Englands Prospects, section 2, pages 71-72
   • Here they went with a kind of Hand-Barrow, and lay’d the Dead Bodies on it, and carry’d them out to the Carts;1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, page 105
2. Any wheeled cart or box propelled by hand.
   • The next conveyance (which, indeed, is the most general) is the costermonger’s hand-barrow. These are very light in their make, with springs terminating at the axle.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 27
   • She mentioned once that the car in which they were riding had been bought with the proceeds of her last novel. ‘With the proceeds of my last novel,’ said Henry [James] meditatively, ‘I purchased a small go-cart, or hand-barrow, on which my guests’ luggage is wheeled from the station to my house […]’1947, Percy Lubbock, chapter 5, in Portrait of Edith Wharton, page 69

   Synonyms:

   handcart