barrow
/ˈbærəʊ/ (bre, ipa) · [bˈæro] /ˈbærəʊ/ (ame, ipa) · [bˈæro] /ˈber-(ˌ)ō ˈba-(ˌ)rō/ (ame, mw)
barrow — noun
- barrowsingular
- barrowsplural
1. a small cart with a single wheel at the front, two handles at the back, and a de
a small cart with a single wheel at the front, two handles at the back, and a deep tray, pushed by one person to carry garden waste, rubble, or building materials over short distances.
Romi loaded the wooden barrow with bricks and pushed it across the muddy construction site.
collocation: load + barrow + with [load]
The gardener rested his spade against the barrow and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Eli used a rusty barrow to haul broken branches from the backyard after the storm.
A heavy barrow full of wet concrete is difficult to push across soft ground.
Omar bought a new steel barrow with a puncture-proof tyre for his landscaping business.
- wheelbarrow
the full, more common term for this object
用法筆記
In everyday conversation, 'wheelbarrow' is more common than 'barrow' for this sense throughout the English-speaking world.
常見錯誤
2. a two-wheeled handcart with a shallow flat top, traditionally used by market tra
a two-wheeled handcart with a shallow flat top, traditionally used by market traders to display and sell fruit, vegetables, flowers, or other goods from the roadside.
Every morning, Trang pushed her barrow to the market square and arranged the fresh apricots.
verb pattern: push + barrow + to [destination]
In old photographs of London, costermongers can be seen selling shellfish from wooden barrows.
variety: British costermonger term
The city council introduced new rules for barrow vendors operating near the train station.
Vinícius bought a bag of roasted chestnuts from a street barrow outside the theatre.
用法筆記
This sense is associated especially with London street traders (costermongers) from the 19th and early 20th centuries; in modern use, 'market stall' or 'street cart' is more frequent.
3. a rounded hill of earth and stones built over an ancient grave, made by prehisto
a rounded hill of earth and stones built over an ancient grave, made by prehistoric peoples to mark and protect the dead buried beneath.
The archaeologists carefully dug into the ancient barrow and found Bronze Age pottery inside.
collocation: dig into + ancient barrow
A grassy barrow on the hilltop marks a burial site over four thousand years old.
Daichi studied the aerial photographs to locate unrecorded barrows hidden beneath the farmland.
The farmer's plough accidentally damaged the edge of a prehistoric barrow in the north field.
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1 and 2 — the burial mound sense is an archaeological term unrelated to wheeled vehicles; also called a 'tumulus' in formal or academic writing.