Meanings of barrowful in English

These were first covered with a barrowful of earth and then with a heap of brushwood.

This Peter Crawley, some years before our tale, lay crushed beneath a barrowful of debts-manyof them to publicans.

For there, upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.

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.

It mattered not what they were carrying, they drove straight into the press, and when they could get no farther, blindly discharged their barrowful.

When all was over, Hyacinth wheeled them away in barrowfuls, wondering greatly what he was to do with them.

Into these, green lobsters were tossed by barrowfuls, to be taken out a little later smoking hot and coloured a vivid scarlet.