Wheelbarrow
['wiːlbærəʊ] or ['wilbæro]
Definition
(n.) A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
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Examples
- This shows that in loading a wheelbarrow, it is important to arrange the load as near to the wheel as possible. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The fulcrum is at the wheel, the force is at the handles, the weight is on the wheelbarrow. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The nutcracker (Fig. 101) is an illustration of a double lever of the wheelbarrow kind; the nearer the nut is to the fulcrum, the easier the cracking. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In 1811 Cumming introduced the reel, and in 1814 Dobbs described a wheelbarrow arrangement of reaper in which he used the divider. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- One of the most useful levers of this type is the wheelbarrow (Fig. 99). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The Chinese, probably before that time, had a wheelbarrow arrangement with a seed hopper and separate seed spouts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- These mounds are usually about eighteen feet apart, and consist of about as much earth as would fill a very large wheelbarrow. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There he would be satisfied, as satisfied as a wheelbarrow that goes backwards and forwards along a plank all day--she had seen it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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