英和和英

語源

From 中期英語 handbarow, handbarwe, equivalent to hand +‎ barrow.

名詞

handbarrow (plural handbarrows)

1. A frame, supported by poles, used for carrying things; similar to a litter or stretcher.
   • 1634, William Wood, chapter 7, in New Englands Prospects‎, section 2, pages 71-72:

     […] they framed a thing like a hand barrow and carryed this selfe-helpelesse person on their bare shoulders twelve miles to his residence:

   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year‎, page 105:

     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;

   • 1814, Jane Austen, chapter 6, in Mansfield Park‎, volume 1, page 119:

     “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.”

2. Any wheeled cart or box propelled by hand.

   Synonym: handcart

   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor‎, volume 1, page 27:

     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.

   • 1947, Percy Lubbock, chapter 5, in Portrait of Edith Wharton‎, page 69:

     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 […] ’