Dictionary

handbarrow en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English handbarow, handbarwe, equivalent to hand + barrow.

Meanings

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:
   • “I am to have it [my harp] to-morrow; but how do you think it is to be conveyed? Not by a waggon or cart;—Oh! no, nothing of that kind could be hired in the village. I might as well have asked for porters and a hand-barrow.” 1814, Jane Austen, chapter 6, in Mansfield Park, volume 1, page 119:
2. Any wheeled cart or box propelled by hand.
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Synonyms

handcart

Translations (20)

hi पालकी (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · mk те́згере (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · tr teskere (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · pl nosidło (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · io kamilo (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · tl arag-arag (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · bg носилка (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · hi शिविका (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · fa زنبه (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · non barar (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · mk но́сило (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · hi तामजान (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · hi डोली (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · ota تسكره (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · mk но́силка (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · mk та́рга (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · cs nosítka (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · hi हथठेला (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · nrf chiviéthe à bras (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things) · bg тарга (frame supported by poles, used for carrying things)