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Wheelbarrow

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

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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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Transport 76% connected

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

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Barrow 92% connected

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.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Astigmatism noun · 78% connection

(optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point

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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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Coehorn noun · 78% connection

A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men.

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Concertina noun · 78% connection

A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside,…

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Convolution noun · 78% connection

The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or…

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Counterbalance noun · 78% connection

A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the w…

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Crop noun · 78% connection

That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially,…

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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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Cultivator noun · 78% connection

An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangu…

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Drive verb · 78% connection

To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carr…

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Dumpage noun · 78% connection

The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.

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Flume noun · 78% connection

A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydra…

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Freighter noun · 78% connection

One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.

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Hydria noun · 78% connection

A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this…

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Kinesodic adjective · 78% connection

Conveying motion; as; kinesodic substance; -- applied esp. to the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth voluntary and r…

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Linchpin noun · 78% connection

A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.

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