Word Meanings - HANDBARROW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.

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• CARRIBOO
  See CARIBOU
• CARRIABLE
  Capable of being carried.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• WHEELBIRD
  The European goatsucker.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• WHEELWRIGHT
  A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
• WHEELED
  Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage.
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• CARRIAGE
  carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
• WHEELWORK
  A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.
• WHEELING
  1. The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle. 2. The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling. 3. Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling.
• BARROW
  A heap of rubbish, attle, etc. (more info) mound; akin to G. berg mountain, Goth. bairgahei hill, hilly country, and perh. to Skr. b high, OIr. brigh mountain. Cf. Berg, Berry a 1. A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead;
• CARRION
  1. The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food. They did eat the dead carrions. Spenser. 2. A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach. "Old feeble carrions." Shak.
• FRAMEWORK
  1. The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. A staunch and solid piece of framework. Milton. 2. Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
• WHEELBAND
  The tire of a wheel.
• BARROWIST
  A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
• FRAMER
  One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• CATHERINE WHEEL
  See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• FOUR-WHEELER
  A vehicle having four wheels.
• PELTON WHEEL
  A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.
• BREASTWHEEL
  A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
• SCARRING
  A scar; a mark. We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. Tyndall.
• RECARRIAGE
  Act of carrying back.
• HANDBARROW
  A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
• ARTILLERY WHEEL
  A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.
• FUDGE WHEEL
  A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.
• WHEEL
  A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases. The burden or refrain of a song. Note: "This meaning has a low degree of authority, but is supposed from the context in the few cases where the
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• WATER WHEEL
  1. Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an