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barrow
Part of speech: NounA frame covered with boards, and fitted with handles at both ends, or with a wheel at one end and shafts at the other, and used for transporting goods by hand.
Usage examples "barrow":- At noon to the 'Change a little and thence brought Mr. Barrow to dinner with me, where I had a haunch of venison roasted, given me yesterday, and so had a pretty dinner, full of discourse of his business, wherein the poor man is mightily troubled, and I pity him in it, but hope to get him some ease. - "Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright", Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke.
- Two, however, not of the absolutely first rank, may be mentioned here more conveniently than anywhere else- Sir John Barrow and Isaac Disraeli. - "A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)", George Saintsbury.
- He watched Simeon persuade the loaded barrow down the step into the tiny front garden, not daring to help him, because Simeon did not like to be helped by clumsy people in delicate operations. - "The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories", Arnold Bennett.