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wheelbarrow

[hweel-bar-oh, weel-] / ˈʰwilˌbær oʊ, ˈwil- /


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One early hit was the Ballbarrow: a wheelbarrow that featured a ball instead of a wheel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Store your wheelbarrow inside your shed so rainwater can’t collect.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

"What was really bizarre about this scene was there was not only a young woman barely alive on the sofa, but there was a wheelbarrow in the living room."

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

One volunteer carried a dead dog away in a wheelbarrow.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

The following 1,500 years saw the outpouring of Chinese technological inventions, mentioned in Chapter 13, that included paper, the compass, the wheelbarrow, and gunpowder.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Water difficulties are forcing many Cubans to haul the precious resource for long distances, transporting it via wheelbarrows, bicycles, car trunks and even horse-drawn carts.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Sargent said his client was sorry, adding that the mixer and wheelbarrows were returned undamaged.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026

David Matthew Pugh, from Llainwen Isaf in Llanberis, Gwynedd, admitted to taking a cement mixer and two wheelbarrows in the middle of the night on 5 December.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026

They describe a man with a good sense of humor who was kind to visiting children and pushed them around in wheelbarrows for fun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

It was backbreaking work: digging out a level patch of earth, hauling rocks in wheelbarrows, hammering boards in place.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz

Groceries are wheelbarrowed to the front door by a deliveryman whose significance you don’t grasp until he turns his back, revealing the red prisoner stripe on his jacket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

The meat is then meticulously divided into portions and wheelbarrowed away by each islander.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2018

He worked as a bellhop at a swanky hotel, wheelbarrowed asphalt and busted up fights as a bouncer at an Irish tavern.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2018

The post office is closed indefinitely, as are the stores except the Big Sur Deli, whose employees wheelbarrowed supplies across the bridge before it closed.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2017

"And I find myself up a Scottish Highland, wheelbarrowing along a very large head. It's really exciting."

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

When his $75 ran out, he wangled a $4.20-a-week job wheelbarrowing loads of coal into the university powerhouse, and ashes out of it.

From Time Magazine Archive


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