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Definition of Handbarrows
1. handbarrow [n] - See also: handbarrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handbarrows
Literary usage of Handbarrows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metropolis Local Management Acts: To which is Added an Appendix by Great Britain, Edmund Humphrey Woolrych (1880)
"... waggons, drays, wheelbarrows, handbarrows, sledges, trucks, or other carriages
upon or over the said pavements, or any of them, or any part thereof, ..."
2. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1893)
"The work of the carpenters is described as hewing and squaring of timber, rearing
building, framing of timber, making of wheelbarrows, handbarrows, ..."
3. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by Great Britain Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner (1864)
"Wheelbarrows and handbarrows, 6/. 7s. 8<7. Iron and steel, 12s. 5d. Iron, 8/.
I8d. Maunds and baskets, 16s. Sd. Shovels and scoops, 19/. 16s. ..."
4. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1893)
"The work of the carpenters is described as hewing and squaring of timber, rearing
building, framing of timber, making of wheelbarrows, handbarrows, ..."
5. The Dressing of Minerals by Henry Louis (1909)
"Ill] is also performed); along the back of the table runs a raised plank, on
which the lads or girls bring in the ore in handbarrows. ..."
6. Riparian Lands of the Mississippi River, Past--present--prospective: Being a by Frank H. Tompkins (1901)
"... costs less and has the advantage of greater compaction and is in consequence
much more substantial than earth placed by handbarrows or wheelbarrows. ..."
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