barrow
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Aged 15, he was selling mobile phone accessories from a barrow in the capital Lagos and sending money home.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2023
While Daniel pushed his barrow, at the other end of the Nigerian social ladder, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice grew increasingly worried about their daughter's health.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2023
Dr. Obermaier’s survey of the local terrain pointed to the presence of a long barrow, an elongated stone monument to the dead.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2022
Fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire on Dec. 17, 2010 after a local official confiscated his barrow.
From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2022
I went between the walls of clay and picked up bricks that had cracked open; when my barrow was full, I would wheel it out onto a wooden scaffold and dump it into a pond.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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