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Barrow

A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.

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Cart 76% connected

A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.

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Handcart 76% connected

A cart drawn or pushed by hand.

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Hill 76% connected

A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.

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Mound 76% connected

A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmount…

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Tumulus 92% connected

An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Wheelbarrow 92% connected

A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Altar noun · 86% connection

a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made

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Arcade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Arch noun · 86% connection

(architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it

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Area noun · 86% connection

a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"

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Arena noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Balance noun · 86% connection

equality of distribution

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Balcony noun · 86% connection

a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet

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Bascule noun · 86% connection

a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw)

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Boarding noun · 86% connection

a structure of boards

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Body noun · 86% connection

the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"

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Bowl noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Bridge noun · 86% connection

a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

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Building noun · 86% connection

a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corne…

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Catchment noun · 86% connection

a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area)

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Coil noun · 86% connection

a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"

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Colonnade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Column noun · 86% connection

a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)

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Complex noun · 86% connection

a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

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Alluvium noun · 78% connection

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently subm…

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Alternative noun · 78% connection

Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are call…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, handles, wheel, heavy, bulky.
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Analogy noun · 78% connection

A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise en…

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Bier noun · 78% connection

A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, handles, wheel, heavy, bulky.
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Boatable adjective · 78% connection

Such as can be transported in a boat.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, handles, wheel, heavy, bulky.
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Boulder noun · 78% connection

A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, handles, wheel, heavy, bulky.
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Breasting noun · 78% connection

The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circu…

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Breastwheel noun · 78% connection

A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…

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Bucket noun · 78% connection

One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddl…

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Burly adjective · 78% connection

Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of sta…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, handles, wheel, heavy, bulky.
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Chest noun · 78% connection

A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.

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Coolie noun · 78% connection

An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, handles, wheel, heavy, bulky.
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Crown wheel unknown · 78% connection

A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.

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