wheelbarrow

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A wheelbarrow

Etymology

From Middle English

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Noun

wheelbarrow (plural wheelbarrows)

1. A small, one-wheeled (rarely two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads.

Derived terms

• wheelbarrow race

Translations

a small cart

• Afrikaans: kruiwa (af)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獨輪車 (cmn), 独轮车 (cmn) (dúlúnchē) (single-wheeled cart), 手推車 (cmn), 手推车 (cmn) (shǒutuīchē) (handcart)

• Crimean Tatar: şana
• Czech: kolečko (cs) n
• Danish: trillebør (da) c
• Dutch: kruiwagen (nl) m and f
• Esperanto: ĉarumo (eo)
• Finnish: kottikärryt (fi)
• French: brouette (fr) f
• German: Schubkarre (de) f
• Hungarian: talicska (hu)
• Ido: brueto (io)
• Italian: carriola (it) f
• Japanese: 手押し車 (ja) (ておしぐるま, teoshi-guruma) (handcart)

• Jèrriais: chiviéthe f
• Ladin: graton m
• Latin: pabō (la) m
• Latvian: ķerra (lv) f
• Low German: Schuuvkoor (nds) f
• Macedonian: рачна количка (ráčna kólička) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trillebår (nb) m and f

  Nynorsk: trillebår (nn) f

• Polish: taczka (pl)
• Portuguese: carrinho de mão (pt) m
• Romanian: roabă (ro) f
• Russian: тачка (ru) (táčka) f, тележка (ru) (teléžka) f
• Slovak: fúrik (sk)
• Spanish: carretilla m
• Swahili: ngolofimo (sw)
• Swedish: skottkärra (sv) c, rullebör (sv) c (Southern Swedish)
• Vietnamese: xe đẩy (vi)
• Volapük: bruät (vo)

Verb

wheelbarrow (third-person singular simple present wheelbarrows, present participle wheelbarrowing, simple past and past participle wheelbarrowed)

1. (transitive) To convey in a wheelbarrow.
2. (transitive, aviation) To cause the weight of an aeroplane to become concentrated around the nosewheel.