wheelbarrow
UK/ˈwiːlbæɹəʊ//ˈwilbæɹoʊ/
wheelbarrow noun: a small, one-wheeled (or rarely, two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads.
Noun
wheelbarrow (plural wheelbarrows)
- 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
- Space for the concrete batching plant was found some little distance down the line, and from here a total of 60 tons of concrete was despatched in a wheelbarrow on a railway trolley.1959 December, Richard Hope, “Narrow Gauge Landslip”, in Railway Magazine, page 866
Verb
wheelbarrow (third-person singular simple present wheelbarrows, present participle wheelbarrowing, simple past and past participle wheelbarrowed)
- To convey in a wheelbarrow.
- To cause the weight of an aeroplane to become concentrated around the nosewheel.
wheelbarrow meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
wheelbarrow in Hindi
- small cart
- व्हील बैरो vhīl bairo
wheelbarrow in Tamil
- small cart
- ஒற்றைச் சில்லு வண்டி தள்ளுவண்டி oṟṟaic cillu vaṇṭi
wheelbarrow in Bengali
- small cart
- ঠেলাগাড়ি ṭhelagaṛi, ঠেলা ṭhela
wheelbarrow in Malayalam
- ഒറ്റച്ചക്രക്കൈവണ്ടി, ഹസ്തശകടം
More languagesFewer languages
- wheelbarrow in Kannada
- ಚಕ್ರದ ಕೈಬಂಡಿ ಯಾ ತಳ್ಳುಬಂಡಿ cakrada kaibaṇḍi yā taḷḷubaṇḍi
- wheelbarrow in Gujarati
- ઠેલો ṭhelo
- wheelbarrow in Sinhala
- වීල්බැරැක්කය wīlbærækkaya
- wheelbarrow in Pashto
- لاس ګاډی lâs gâḍay
- wheelbarrow in Tagalog
- bitlag
- wheelbarrow in Arabic
- عَرَبَة يَدَوِيَّة ʕaraba yadawiyya, عَجَلَة يَد ʕajalat yad
- wheelbarrow in Malay
- kereta sorong
- wheelbarrow in Indonesian
- gerobak tangan
- wheelbarrow in Persian
- فرغون forġun, چرخدستی čarx-dasti
- wheelbarrow in Thai
- รถเข็นล้อเดียว rót-kěn-lɔ́ɔ-diao, รถเข็นทราย rót-kěn-saai
- wheelbarrow in Vietnamese
- xe đẩy, xe cút kít, xe rùa
- wheelbarrow in Myanmar
- တစ်ဘီး လက်တွန်းလှည်း tacbhi: laktwan:hlany:
- Dzongkha
- དོ་འཁོར་ལག་འཧུད། do 'khor lag 'hud
Examples of wheelbarrow in a sentence
- Everyone pick a token (hat, wheelbarrow, thimble, etc.) and place it on the Start square.
- They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.
- That old wheelbarrow is sound as a dollar.
Forms of wheelbarrow
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wheelbarrows |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wheelbarrows |
| present participle | wheelbarrowing |
| past participle | wheelbarrowed |
| past | wheelbarrowed |
Origin of wheelbarrow
From Middle English whelbarwe; equivalent to wheel + barrow.
Words formed from wheelbarrow
Phrases with wheelbarrow
Questions about wheelbarrow
- What does wheelbarrow mean?
- Wheelbarrow means a small, one-wheeled (or rarely, two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads.
- What is wheelbarrow in Hindi?
- Wheelbarrow in Hindi is व्हील बैरो (vhīl bairo). See Wheelbarrow meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is wheelbarrow?
- Wheelbarrow can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce wheelbarrow?
- Wheelbarrow is pronounced /ˈwiːlbæɹəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of wheelbarrow?
- The plural of wheelbarrow is wheelbarrows.
Words near wheelbarrow in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wheelbarrow (page history and authors); wheelbarrow (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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