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Definition: Wheelbarrow |
WheelbarrowNoun1. A cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wheelbarrow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A wheelbarrow is a small one or two-wheeled cart designed to be pushed by a single person using two handles to the rear. They are designed to ease the transport of heavy, often loose, loads and are common in the construction industry and in gardening.A two-wheel type is more stable, a one-wheel type has better maneuverability.
Modern designs are usually single wheel. Common designs are all metal with a separate frame and tray. The noise generated by all metal designs in loading and moving means that for domestic use polypropylene trays are more common being lighter and quieter but less tough.
History
Despite the development of wheeled carts from around 3,000 BCE the invention of the wheelbarrow is usually traced to China, where there are a number of competing claims. Invented around the 2nd century CE it is usually credited to Zhuge Liang, ruler of Shu Han from 189 to 234 who had it developed as a transport for military supplies. The design was with a large single central wheel around which a wooden box was constructed but it was soon adapted to a design with two handles for pulling. The first indications of wheelbarrows in Europe are from illustrations in the 13th century. It was in Europe that the design was reversed with the wheel moving from the centre to the front of the box and the motive power to the rear.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wheelbarrow."
Synonyms: WheelbarrowSynonyms: barrow (n), garden cart (n), lawn cart (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I mean, if we only had a wheelbarrow, that would be something (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) Where we did we put that wheelbarrow the albino had (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) I've never seen a damn Yankee yet that could operate more than a wheelbarrow. (A Family Thing; writing credit: Billy Bob Thornton; Tom Epperson) There are a lot of ways to grieve, but last time I checked, wheelbarrow style wasn't one of them (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Wheelbarrow Race (1898) | |
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Consumer Goods |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Man sitting on wheelbarrow looking at frog. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Man with wheelbarrow. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The wheelbarrow water delivery. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wheelbarrow transportation - China's best and cheapest freighters - at the boat landing, Tientsin. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Children with wheelbarrow. Reedsville, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Flood debris in yard of resettlement client. The wheelbarrow floated to its precarious position on the roof. Hatfield, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Treasury. A $75,000 wheelbarrow of mutilated money on way to vaults. Employee in picture has wheeled barrow 50 years. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Shanghai - two Chinese men being carried in wheelbarrow. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Woman seated in wheelbarrow pushed by men. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Three men seated in wheelbarrow pushed by man. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Grungy wheelbarrow" by Stephanie Brim Commentary: "A closeup of the bottom of a rusty wheelbarrow." | "Wheelbarrow" by Ibon San Martin Commentary: "Wheelbarrow on a tree." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | At the present day, and in this country, as I find by my own experience, a few implements, a knife, an axe, a spade, a wheelbarrow, etc. |
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| "Wheelbarrow" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wheelbarrow" is used about 209 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 209 | 21,011 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "wheelbarrow": drunk as a wheelbarrow. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "wheelbarrow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | karrocë dore (Barrow, cart, hand-barrow, handcart, trolley). (various references) | |
Arabic | عربة يدوية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ръчна количка (go cart, hand-barrow, handcart). (various references) | |
Chinese | 独轮车, 小車 . (various references) | |
Czech | trakař (Barrow, trundle, wheel-barrow), koleèko (Barrow, caster, hand-barrow, round, wheel, wheel-barrow). (various references) | |
Danish | trilleboer, hjulboer. (various references) | |
Dutch | kruiwagen. (various references) | |
Esperanto | puŝveturilo, ĉarumo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | hjólbøra. (various references) | |
Farsi | فرقان , چرخ خاک کشی , چرخ دستی (Barrow), باچرخ دستی یاچرخ خاک کشی حمل کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | työntökärryt (push-cart), kottikärryt. (various references) | |
French | brouette. (various references) | |
German | Schubkarren (Barrow, pushcart, wheel barrow, wheelbarrows), Schubkarre (pushcart), Karre (barrow, cart, crate, heap). (various references) | |
Greek | χειράμαξα (Barrow, cart), χειράμαξο, χειραμάξιο (push cart). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מריצה (handcart), עגלת יד (cart, pushcart). (various references) | |
Hungarian | talicska (Barrow). (various references) | |
Italian | carriola (Barrow, wheel barrow, wheelbarrows). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 猫車 , 手車 (handcart), 手押し車 (handcart), 一輪車 (monocycle, unicycle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ねこぐるま, いちりんしゃ (monocycle, unicycle), ておしぐるま (handcart), てぐるま (handcart). (various references) | |
Manx | barrey queeylagh. (various references) | |
Papago | noli kalit. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eelbarrowwhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | carrinho de mão (barrow, pushcart). (various references) | |
Romanian | teleagã, tãrãboanţã (Barrow), roabã (Barrow, bondwoman, slave, trolley). (various references) | |
Russian | тачка (barrow, cradle, hand-barrow). (various references) | |
Scottish | bara (a barrow, barrow : bara-rotha). (various references) | |
Sepedi | kiribane. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kolica sa jednim točkom. (various references) | |
Spanish | carretilla (Barrow, cart, go-cart, handcart, pallet truck, pushcart, trolley, truck). (various references) | |
Swedish | skottkärra (barrow, truck, wheel-barrow). (various references) | |
Turkish | el arabası (Barrow, drag, handcart, pushcart, trolley, truck). (various references) | |
Turkmen | galtak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тачка (carry, pushcart, waggon, wagon). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xe cút kít. (various references) | |
Welsh | whilber (barrow), berfa (barrow). (various references) | |
Zulu | ilibhala, ibhala. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wheelbarrow": wheelbarrowed, wheelbarrowing, wheelbarrows. (additional references) | |
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"Wheelbarrow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wheelbarow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "wheelbarrow" (pronounced 'Wheel"bar`row'): Seek-sorrow. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-h-l-o-r-r-w-w" | |
-4 letters: brawler, earlobe, hewable, laborer, rowable, warbler. | |
-5 letters: aerobe, areole, barlow, barrel, barrow, bawler, bearer, behowl, beware, blower, boreal, bowler, brawer, brewer, harbor, harrow, healer, hearer, herbal, howler, realer, rebore, rehear, warble, wearer, whaler. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-h-l-o-r-r-w-w" | |
+1 letter: wheelbarrows. | |
+2 letters: wheelbarrowed. | |
+3 letters: wheelbarrowing. | |
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