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hand-barrow
[barrow n.3 1 a.]
A flat, rectangular frame of transverse bars, having shafts or ‘trams’ before and behind, by which it is carried.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 572/2 Ce[no]vectorium manuale, an handberwe. 1511Demaundes Joyous in Promp. Parv. 225/1 note, What thinge shall be hardest to hym to knowe? R. A hande-barowe, for of that he shall not knowe whiche ende shall goo before. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1548/1 Caried from the gaole to the place of iudgement, some vpon handbarrowes. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 322 Barrow, is of two sorts; either a Hand-barrow, or a Wheel-barrow. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xxii. (1860) 234/1 We could see..a dead body borne forth by two persons on a hand-barrow.
†b. A similar flat barrow having a wheel. Obs.
1521MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For a hand barow whele vjd. 1555Eden Decades 333 Hand barrowes bothe with wheeles and without wheeles.
c. Comb. handbarrow beggar, a mendicant cripple carried from door to door on a stretcher, as formerly customary in Scotland. |