wheelbarrow

as in pushcart
a vehicle with two handles, a large bowl, and usually one wheel that is used for carrying heavy loads of dirt, rocks, etc.

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Recent Examples of wheelbarrow Rogers ran a jackhammer, cutting down concrete floors and carrying the pieces out in a wheelbarrow. Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2024 That same day, Louis shoveled sand into a wheelbarrow and pushed the wheelbarrow over to other volunteers as his mom stood close by, encouraging him. Rachel Burchfield, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024 Keep your gardening shed or garage tidy with this handy wheelbarrow hanger, which holds up to 35 pounds. Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2024 Our experts rounded up all of our favorite gardening tools, from wheelbarrows to garden hoses. Sara Beth Bolin, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for wheelbarrow 
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Noun
  • Some go door to door with pushcarts, offering to take or even buy unwanted electronics.
    Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Enquirer reports described people stealing pushcarts and running wagons into the canal (where Central Parkway is today).
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Fewer spectacles have inspired American automotive imaginations more than monster trucks.
    Peter Nelson, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • According to North Carolina Department of Corrections records, she was born on July 18, 1978, to a truck driver.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Haigh hopes for more trams Haigh will have to address such funding gaps, or find a way for a government with a tight budget to cough up some cash, in order to revive trams in the UK.
    Nicole Kobie, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • On the Christmas Express, visitors will be driven through the holiday adventure in the open-air tram.
    Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 25 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Wheeler Farm: Meet Santa on the farmhouse porch and take a wagon ride through the light displays 5-7pm each Friday through Dec. 20.
    Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Enquirer reports described people stealing pushcarts and running wagons into the canal (where Central Parkway is today).
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Creation and delivery times for personalized items can vary, so check your cart at checkout for the most current estimates.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Add Spiced Buttercream Apples Scented Jar Candle to your cart.
    Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The ancient long barrow, located at the border of the villages Dlouhé Dvory and Lípa in the country’s eastern Bohemia region, measures roughly 620 feet long and 50 feet wide at its largest point.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 2 July 2024
  • Another Bronze Age cemetery located ten miles from Stonehenge features 20 barrows, or circular mounds, some of which show signs of cremation.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Sandoz wheeled a roughly 250-pound condensing unit into place on a hand truck with the grace of a ballroom dancer.
    Andrew Ford, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
  • With the load going up to 50.5 kilograms--or more than 111 pounds--the buckets were dispensed with and a hand truck with a pneumatic platform loaded with steel plates was rolled onto the floor.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019

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“Wheelbarrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wheelbarrow. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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