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.
2 Kit went to the end of the barrow - like mound of the turnip-pit.
3 Mudford and his barrow departed; and Tara looked appealingly at her mother.
4 Then Arthur happened to notice the wheel of the barrow - its sole wheel.
5 They would walk it and excavate the strange barrow , find their history.
1 These were first covered with a barrowful of earth and then with a heap of brushwood.
2 This Peter Crawley, some years before our tale, lay crushed beneath a barrowful of debts-manyof them to publicans.
3 For there, upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.
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.
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 .
6 When all was over, Hyacinth wheeled them away in barrowfuls , wondering greatly what he was to do with them.
7 Into these, green lobsters were tossed by barrowfuls , to be taken out a little later smoking hot and coloured a vivid scarlet.
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