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wheelbarrow, n.|ˈhwiːlˌbærəʊ|
Forms: see wheel n. and barrow n.3; also 4 wil-, 6 whil-; 4 -bargh, 5 -berghe, -berwe, 6 -barugh, -berow, 7 -barrough.
A barrow or shallow open box mounted between two shafts that receive the axle of a wheel at the front ends, the rear ends being shaped into handles and having legs on which it rests; also applied to similar contrivances with more than one wheel.
c1340Nominale (Skeat) 218 Sikeman lith in hors-bere..And the crepul in the wilbarewe. 1394in Archaeologia XXIV. 308 Et in j welbargh empt' pro stauro Maner' xij d. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 572/1 Cenovectorium rotatum, a whelberwe. 1533MS. Rawl. D. 776 lf. 149 Whele⁓barrowes ffor laborers to serve bryklayers with. c1563Jack Juggler (1912) B iv b, I shall make thee not able to goo nor ryde But in a dungcart or a whilberow liyng on on syde. 1598Barret Theor. Warres v. ii. 131 Hand-barrowes, and wheele-barrowes to carrie earth. 1678Otway Friendship in F. iii. i, I can act the rumbling of a Wheelbarrow. 1700T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem. 20 Another Fellow driving a Wheel-Barrow of Nuts. 1855Delamer Kitch. Gard. (1861) 8 Two doors,..wide enough to admit a wheel⁓barrow, or a small cart.
†b. transf. applied to a light carriage. Obs.
c1600Day Begg. Bednall Gr. v. (1881) 114 To be jaunted up and down London Streets in a lethern wheelbarrow. 1625B. Jonson Staple of News ii. iii, You thinke I can runne like light-foot Ralph, Or keep a wheele-barrow, with a sayle in towne here To whirle me to you. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Yarmouth, People are carried here all over the town..for 6d. in what they call a coach, but it is only a wheel-barrow, drawn by one horse. 1794Wolcot (P. Pindar) Pindariana, Hymn to Adversity, Morality..may..Throw by his wheel-barrow, and keep a carriage. 1819Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) IV. 290 You know of old how I detest that mania of driving wheel-barrows up and down, when a man has a handsome horse and can ride him.
c. In allusive and proverbial phr.: see quots.
1597Breton Wits Trenchmour Wks. (Grosart) II. 9/1 It is not a little treason in youth, to catch age in a wheele⁓barrow. 1618T. Adams Gods Bountie i. Wks. 864 This oppressor must needs goe to heauen,..But it will bee, as the by-word is, in a Wheele-barrow; the fiends, and not the Angels will take hold on him. 1675Cotton Burlesque upon B. 128 When drunk as Drum, or Wheelbarrow. 1677W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. ii. 36 Behold the Reason of the Wheelbarrow! That goes to rumble. Ibid. x. 159 The Believing Collier whirles right to Heaven in a Wheel-barrow. 1709[see drunk ppl. a. 1 b].
d. attrib. and Comb., as wheelbarrow-load, wheelbarrow-man, wheelbarrow race, wheelbarrow tub; wheelbarrow fashion advb. phr.; wheelbarrow-machine (see quot.).
1834M. Scott Cruise Midge xviii, Laying hold of the navigator *wheelbarrow fashion.
1863Hawthorne Our Old Home, Outside Glimpses Engl. Pov., The wealthier inhabitants purchased their coal by the *wheelbarrow-load.
1856Jrnl. Soc. Arts IV. 402 Mr. Applegarth..has also invented a beautiful little machine for printing the borders on silk handkerchiefs, called the *wheelbarrow machine, from its being worked by the hand round the cloth, which remains stationary.
1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 109 The *Wheelbarrow-Men make five or six Stages, according to the Length of the Way. 1788Massachusetts Spy 26 Nov. 2/1 It is said the perpetrators were of that class called wheelbarrow men, but this is rather improbable, as their object did not appear to be plunder.
1837D. Walker Sports & Games 341 *Wheelbarrow Race... Along this course, over the bridge, and up to the goal, the candidates must drive their barrows blindfolded—if they can.
1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §731 More economical to convey the milk thither in *wheelbarrow tubs.
Hence wheelbarrow v. trans., to convey in a wheelbarrow (whence ˈwheelbarrower); ˈwheelbarrowful, as much as a wheelbarrow holds. See also wheelbarrowing vbl. n.
1721Amherst Terræ Fil. No. 44 (1726) 244 The greatest part of his heavy compliments are *wheel-barrow'd from the lime-kiln. 1887Baring-Gould Gaverocks xiv, Onions..wheelbarrowed into the town.
1893W. Wallace Scot. Yest. 73 He became the regular *wheelbarrower at the Castle.
1837Thackeray Ravenswing viii, The theatre servants wheeled away a *wheelbarrow-full. 1851B'ham & Midl. Gard. Mag. Apr. 31 At the rate of one wheelbarrow full to every twelve of soil.
Senses a–d in Dict. become 1 a–c, 2. Add: [1.] d. Usu. pl. A children's game or activity in which one partner supports the other as in a wheelbarrow race (sense *(b) below).
1740in R. J. B. Walker Old Westminster Bridge (1979) i. 15 Game at Wheel Barrows. 1943D. Welch Maiden Voy. xxix. 245, I dropped in, head first, and groped on the floor with my hands as if I were playing ‘wheelbarrows’. 1969I. & P. Opie Children's Games vi. 189 Wheelbarrow. One player whose feet are held off the ground, as for a wheelbarrow race, reaches forward as far as he can, and both players go to the spot touched.
2. wheelbarrow race, (a) a race in which each contestant pushes a wheelbarrow (usu. occupied by a team-mate) (further examples); (b) a race between teams of two, one team member holding up the legs of the other, who is the wheelbarrow and ‘walks’ as quickly as possible on his or her hands.
1874Thistleton's Illustr. Jolly Giant 1 Aug. 51/3 We would advise all who wish to dance and witness the athletic games and sports, *wheelbarrow race, prizes, especially the box of cigars, valued at $2, to start early for Fasskin's Gardens. 1903Daily Chron. 31 Mar. 9/1 Wheelbarrow races and stone-rolling competitions. 1935Punch 7 Aug. 153/3 Old Lady Hawkins looked at the list, lowered her lorgnette, consulted the Vicar, and announced the winners of the wheelbarrrow race. 1988Wheatbelt Mercury (Merredin, Austral.) 14 Sept. 22/1 The Agro-olympics competition..consists of..the wheelbarrow race, the hay stacking competition, the wool bale race, mallee root picking competition and the wheat bag throwing relay. |