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barrow

[bar-oh] / ˈbær oʊ /


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During his many trips to abandoned mines around mid Wales he has found a child's footprint, hobnail boots, tools, miners' gloves and a 170-year-old barrow "still where the miner originally left it".

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2024

One recent night under a freezing drizzle, a man named Zarlialai, 40, leaned against his rusty barrow.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2023

"But then he saw a guy going into the stadium to set up a Coca-Cola stall, so he took a shot of his uniform and barrow and rolled it in so he could watch."

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2022

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

As he left the cobbler’s, his new shoes squeaking on his feet, he saw a peddler pushing a barrow of limes up Cornhill.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes




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