wheelbarrow, wheelebarrow

A sort of hand-machine, consisting of a frame with two handles or trams, and frequently a box, supported on a single wheel and rolled by a single individual. "Who [Flemmings] had brought their horses and cartes, and whecle - barrowes , and plankes for their barrowes to runne vpon." -Hackluyt : Voyages , iii. 693. Wheelbarrow boat : A stern-wheel steamboat, such as is used on shallow Western rivers. wheel-bird, s. Ornith.: One of the many popular names of the Goatsucker ( Caprimulgus europœus ). It has reference to the fancied resemblance of the note of the bird to the noise of a spinning-wheel. wheel-boat, s . A boat with wheels, to be used either on water or on inclined planes or railways. wheel-bug, s. [ARILUS.] wheel-carriage, s . A carriage moved on wheels, as a coach, gig, wagon, cart, railway carriage, . wheel-chair, subst . A bath-chair; an invalid's chair. wheel-coulter, s. Agric.: A sharp-edged wheel running in advance of the breast of the plow, to cut the sod or weeds in the line of the furrow.