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# wheelbarrow

«wheelbarrow» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small cart with one wheel at the front, two handles and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a wheelbarrow, wheelbarrows)

### meaning for a pupil

A wheelbarrow is a small cart with one wheel at the front, two handles and two legs at the back, used for carrying loads such as soil, sand or bricks in a garden or on a building site. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheelbarrow/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on forces and simple machines, the wheelbarrow is a lever (class 2): the wheel is the pivot, the load sits in the middle, and you lift the handles, so a heavy load feels lighter. In everyday life people use a wheelbarrow in the garden. In PE, a «wheelbarrow race» is when one child walks on their hands while a partner holds their legs. Phrases: «push a wheelbarrow», «wheelbarrow race».

### examples

- We moved the soil in a wheelbarrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheelbarrow/#x1)
- Grandpa pushed the wheelbarrow full of leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheelbarrow/#x2)
- The wheelbarrow is a kind of lever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheelbarrow/#x3)
- We had a wheelbarrow race on sports day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheelbarrow/#x4)
- The builder filled the wheelbarrow with bricks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheelbarrow/#x5)
- Don't overload the wheelbarrow or it will tip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheelbarrow/#x6)
- The wheel acts as the pivot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheelbarrow/#x7)
- But presently, as nothing happened, he came out, and climbed upon a wheelbarrow and peeped over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheelbarrow/#x8)

### note

Plural: wheelbarrows. One word; short form: barrow. Science: wheel = pivot/fulcrum, load in the middle, effort at the handles — that is why it makes lifting easier.

### In the corpora

- [Early wheelbarrows are recorded in Han China and crossbows by the 5th century BC; ancient Greece had its own early forms of both.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/53-china-the-four-great-inventions/15/)
- [Seesaws, scissors, wheelbarrows, bottle openers, nutcrackers, tongs and even your own arm are all levers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push/4/)
- [In a wheelbarrow the wheel is the pivot, and the load is easiest to lift when it sits close to the wheel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push/10/)
- [A see-saw, scissors, a bottle opener and a wheelbarrow all use levers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wheelbarrow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheelbarrow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.