OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 7144

barrow

/ˈbæɹ.əʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
carretilla • carrucha
A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
In contrast, the Westminster Gazette in 1912 was much more positive about railway staff, praising the "...army of porters hustling and bustling hither and thither with barrows groa…
The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed b…
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