handbarrown.

1403 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 25 (MED) Item, j handbarowe, ij d.

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 572/2 Ce[no]vectorium manuale, an handberwe.

1511 Demaundes Joyous in Promptorium Parvulorum 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.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1548/1 Caried from the gaole to the place of iudgement, some vpon handbarrowes.

1644 D. P. P. Six Secondary Causes Spinning out of Warre 57 The most necessarie implements of warre, I meane, Tents Pick-axes, Shovels and Spades, Waggons, Hand-barrowes, and Wheel-barrowes, Tortues, Mantelets, and Ladders.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 322 Barrow, is of two sorts; either a Hand-barrow, or a Wheel-barrow.

1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 182 Two Men will easily carry it upon a Colt-Staff, or Hand-Barrow.

1776 J. Marshall Travels 1770–1 IV. iv. 105 I think hand-barrows, even carried between two men on poles, like a sedan chair, would be a great saving, supposing wheels must not go into the intervals.

1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 54 He was often carried home to his crue, on a hand-barrow, just mortal.

1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters xxii. 462 We could see..a dead body borne forth by two persons on a hand-barrow.

1919 Washington Post 7 Feb. 5/3 Nicholas Michaelovitch..had to be carried to the courtyard for execution on a handbarrow, and in this position was shot.

2002 Daily Oklahoman (Nexis) 19 Mar. The earth from the ditches was conveyed by barrow, perhaps by wheelbarrow or handbarrow.

1521 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) For a hand barow whele vjd.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 333^v Handbarrowes, bothe with wheeles and without wheeles.

1840 Mechanics' Mag. 3 Oct. 354/1 I was struck with the havoc made in the wheels of the hand-barrows, a considerable number having been broken.

1856 H. Conscience Sketches Flemish Life iii. 194 Not far from the auctioneer, in the midst of similar objects, a two-wheel hand-barrow was to be seen, and near it a man, who looked exceedingly downcast.

1887 Tuapeka (N.Z.) Times 20 Apr. 6/4 The feat..of wheeling a handbarrow from that town [sc. Dundee] to London and back.

1927 Glasgow Herald 13 Aug. 8/7 The railway porter..pushing a heavy, iron-tyred, bogey-wheeled handbarrow along a concrete platform.

2001 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 Oct. d5/1 It [sc. Fulton Fish Market] is a place where workers still wear blue collars and push wooden handbarrows.

1855 J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy i. 9 I allude to the handbarrow beggars. These..were at one time a source of infinite trouble to the people in the wild sequestered parts of the country.

1883 Westm. Rev. Apr. 582 The worst class of all were the ‘handbarrow beggars’, miserable cripples who were deposited by their friends at a farmer's door, where they had to be fed to keep them from starving.

1936 E. S. Bates Inside Out I. 188 The hand-barrow beggar, i.e. cripples, real or pretended, who laid on barrows and were left at a farmhouse door, it being the custom for the farmer or cottager to give them some alms and to push the barrow on to the next door.