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- noun Plural form of
handbarrow .
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Examples
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Afterwards it was carried off, on handbarrows, because it is thus less exposed to be broken than on the necks of negroes.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz
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When at last towards dawn a not too zealous governor called out the troops and began to clear the streets of rioters, Benham and a band of Jews were still keeping the gateway of that court behind a hasty but adequate barricade of furniture and handbarrows.
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What a mass of carts, drays, buggies, wheelbarrows, handbarrows, and many queer makeshifts for carrying goods -- the strangest of all a large barrel set on an axle, and dragged or shoved by means of two long handles, the proud possessor's belongings turning round and round inside until they must surely be churned into a most confusing jumble.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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Wafers; water colors; whalebone; white and red lead; white vitriol, or sulphate of zinc; whiting, or Paris white; window glass, broad, crown or cylinder; woolen and worsted yarns, and woolen listings; shot of lead, not otherwise provided for; wheelbarrows and handbarrows; wagons and vehicles of every description.
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Church-spoils; the wounded of the Tenth of August defile in handbarrows; and, in the Pandemonial Midnight, Egalite's dames in tricolor drink lemonade, and spectrum of Sieyes mount, saying, Death sans phrase.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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** and after landing at a low wharf which had been built from the shore, we first went to a small hut, which stood near the wharf, and was used as a place of deposit for the handbarrows and shovels provided for these occasions.
American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge
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