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wheel-barrow

wheel-barrow is the alternative form of wheelbarrow.

Meaning of wheelbarrow

Noun

wheelbarrow (plural wheelbarrows)

  1. A small, one-wheeled (or rarely, two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads.
    • 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.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

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Forms of wheel-barrow

pluralwheel-barrows

Phrases with wheel-barrow

Questions about wheel-barrow

What is wheel-barrow the alternative form of?
Wheel-barrow is the alternative form of wheelbarrow.

Words near wheel-barrow in the dictionary

  1. wheel well
  2. wheel wells
  3. wheel window
  4. wheel windows
  5. wheel within a wheel
  6. wheel-barrow
  7. wheel-barrow man
  8. wheel-barrow men
  9. wheel-barrows
  10. wheel-chair
  11. wheel-chairs

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