barrow man
nounEtymology
Short for wheel-barrow man
Definitions
Alternative form of wheel-barrow man.
- In those days convicts from the prison at Sixth and Walnut streets were taken out to mend the highways, do grading, and other similar tasks. They were popularly known as barrow- men.
- Essentially, the first reform took the "barrow men" off the streets and placed them within the prison walls, to labor there at the pleasure of the keeper/agent.
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