noun
verb
Freq #23902
Meanings
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1
noun
a small cart with one wheel at the front and two handles, pushed by a person to carry loads
She moved the bags of soil across the garden in a wheelbarrow.
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2
verb
to carry or move someone or something in a wheelbarrow
The volunteers wheelbarrowed the wet concrete from the mixer to the path.
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Etymology
From Middle English whelbarwe, a compound of wheel and barrow. Barrow originally named a flat, two-handled frame for carrying a load; adding a wheel produced the familiar one-person cart. The rare verb developed directly from the noun.