Barrow

//ˈbæɹ.əʊ//

"Barrow" in a Sentence (6 examples)

One of them bore a lantern, while the other wheeled before him a barrow, laden with crowbar, pickaxe, and spade.

There are tall menhirs at Egil's barrow.

Meronym: dolmen

“Will you ask our oldest warriors to build me a barrow?”

The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.

In contrast, the Westminster Gazette in 1912 was much more positive about railway staff, praising the "...army of porters hustling and bustling hither and thither with barrows groaning under the weight of bags and baggage and... the ever-patient and long-suffering guards, courteously giving information and advice to the querulous passengers... to the porter the Christmas season means a continuous round of heavy labour, extremely tiring to both nerves and temper, and this fact the public too often seem either to forget or ignore."

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