handbarrow

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A frame, supported by poles, used for carrying things

   A frame, supported by poles, used for carrying things; similar to a litter or stretcher.

   • […] they framed a thing like a hand barrow and carryed this selfe-helpelesse person on their bare shoulders twelve miles to his residence:
   • Here they went with a kind of Hand-Barrow, and lay’d the Dead Bodies on it, and carry’d them out to the Carts;
   • “I am to have it [my harp] to-morrow; but how do you think it is to be conveyed? Not by a waggon or cart;—Oh! no, nothing of that kind could be hired in the village. I might as well have asked for porters and a hand-barrow.”
2. 2

   Any wheeled cart or box propelled by hand.

   • The next conveyance (which, indeed, is the most general) is the costermonger’s hand-barrow. These are very light in their make, with springs terminating at the axle.

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