handbarrow
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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.”"
- "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."
- "She mentioned once that the car in which they were riding had been bought with the proceeds of her last novel. ‘With the proceeds of my last novel,’ said Henry [James] meditatively, ‘I purchased a small go-cart, or hand-barrow, on which my guests’ luggage is wheeled from the station to my house […]’"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: handbarow