Definition of wheelbarrow
: a small usually single-wheeled vehicle that is used for carrying small loads and is fitted with handles at the rear by which it can be pushed and guided
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Screens, fences, pergolas and stone walls are also addressed, and there are sections on perennials, hedges that provide privacy, garden art and unique items to use as planters — for example, the body of a wheelbarrow.
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As pedestrians fight their way through a chaotic crowd of vendors and motorcycles and wheelbarrows laden with goods on the Ouanaminthe-Dajabón border in northeast Haiti, child protection workers monitor the movement looking for child traffickers.
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After the fire, Molsberry and some employees dragged wheelbarrows into the store.
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Petty theft, Jeanette Drive: A resident reported April 16 that an unknown man in a pickup truck had stolen a wheelbarrow from her tree lawn.
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This streamlined Euro-style design has players acquiring electrified paddocks, filling them with bright pink dinosaur meeples, and raking in wheelbarrows of cash.
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Fifteen-year-old Madeline Polimerou of Plano guided wheelbarrows full of debris to nearby Dumpsters.
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Each morning in Sacramento, two crews of approximately a dozen people don bright yellow shirts and spend four hours roaming streets and parkways around the shelter, armed with rakes, shovels, brooms and wheelbarrows.
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At a treatment center on October 2, a man pushes a wheelbarrow containing a woman thought to be a victim of the Ebola virus.
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First Known Use of wheelbarrow
14th century
First Known Use of wheelbarrow
1721
WHEELBARROW Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of wheelbarrow for English Language Learners
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: a cart with two handles, a large bowl, and usually one wheel that is used for carrying heavy loads of dirt, rocks, etc.
WHEELBARROW Defined for Kids
Definition of wheelbarrow for Students
: a cart with two handles and usually one wheel for carrying small loads
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