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Significats de barrowful en anglès

The quantity that a barrow will hold.

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        Examples for "barrow"
        Examples for "barrow"
        1
        Some days there were ten barrow loads, i.e., ten times six thousand.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Kit went to the end of the barrow-like mound of the turnip-pit.
        Bog-Myrtle and Peat / Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from th...
        3
        Mudford and his barrow departed; and Tara looked appealingly at her mother.
        Far to Seek / A Romance of England and India
        4
        Then Arthur happened to notice the wheel of the barrow-itssole wheel.
        The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
        5
        They would walk it and excavate the strange barrow, find their history.
        Iron Council
        Ús de barrowful en anglès
        1
        These were first covered with a barrowful of earth and then with a heap of brushwood.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891
        2
        This Peter Crawley, some years before our tale, lay crushed beneath a barrowful of debts-manyof them to publicans.
        It Is Never Too Late to Mend
        3
        For there, upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.
        Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
        4
        He was watching approvingly a barrowful of lilac and other spring flowers being wheeled along by a flower-seller in the middle of the road.
        The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton
        5
        It mattered not what they were carrying, they drove straight into the press, and when they could get no farther, blindly discharged their barrowful.
        Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays
        6
        When all was over, Hyacinth wheeled them away in barrowfuls, wondering greatly what he was to do with them.
        Hyacinth
        7
        Into these, green lobsters were tossed by barrowfuls, to be taken out a little later smoking hot and coloured a vivid scarlet.
        Under the Great Bear
        Barrowful a través del temps