wheelbarrow

Meanings

1. 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.

2. 2
   verb

   to carry or move someone or something in a wheelbarrow

   The volunteers wheelbarrowed the wet concrete from the mixer to the path.

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.

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