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单词 handbarrow beggar
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handbarrow beggar
handbarrow beggar n. historical (now rare) (in Scotland) a disabled beggar carried from door to door on a handbarrow.
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1855 J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy i. 9 I allude to the handbarrow beggars. These..were at one time a source of infinite trouble to the people in the wild sequestered parts of the country.
1883 Westm. Rev. Apr. 582 The worst class of all were the ‘handbarrow beggars’, miserable cripples who were deposited by their friends at a farmer's door, where they had to be fed to keep them from starving.
1936 E. S. Bates Inside Out I. 188 The hand-barrow beggar, i.e. cripples, real or pretended, who laid on barrows and were left at a farmhouse door, it being the custom for the farmer or cottager to give them some alms and to push the barrow on to the next door.
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