wheelbarrow

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We heart Apple season (well I guess we heart all seasons) where we live and this wheelbarrow is about the third one of apples we've harvested in the last month or so - from only one tree.

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  1. noun A one- or two-wheeled vehicle with handles at the rear, used to convey small loads.

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  • I was instructed to defend a man at Hertford Sessions for stealing a wheelbarrow, and unfortunately the wheelbarrow was found on him; more unfortunate still—for I might have made a good speech on the subject of the animus furandi —the man not only told the policeman he stole it, but pleaded “Guilty” before the magistrates. —  The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)
  • Beyond the wheelbarrow was a set of stone steps leading down to a cellar, or perhaps to a kitchen. —  TheGlassBooksoftheDreamEaters
  • We heart Apple season (well I guess we heart all seasons) where we live and this wheelbarrow is about the third one of apples we've harvested in the last month or so - from only one tree. —  Why Travel To France
  • If you are going to work outside, a wheelbarrow should be among the first items that you purchase. —  Personal Finance Advice
  • The jagged and splintered wooden bricks, six inches long, were not bricks, but great beams and baulks of timber; the wheel of the wheelbarrow was the centre of many curious pieces of mechanism. —  Wood Magic A Fable
 

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  1. from Middle English whelbarowe; from wheel + barrow.
 

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/ˈhwilbæroʊ/
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